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Monday, October 6, 2025

Ulrich Wulff at Alfonso Artiaco


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In the past Wulff has painted some of the ugliest paintings known. Comprised entirely of arabesque frills and clowns, it was a jesteral abstraction whose decorative whims unlimited its movement into wild aesthetic territory. Now here there are organizing principles, which, possibly through restraining the expressive frill, seem docile. Painting is made obedient. Painter management systems. The gesture is contained. Brushtroke and painter, kept in cage, an almost pleasant law and order. The painter should only be allowed so much.