Aaron Curry at David Kordansky

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Their shock of ugliness - vogue brandished as grotesque - is spectacular, feels cybernetic, jagged objects reaching (without painting's frame to hold them tastefully) they instead enter you as signs to implant within and deplete themselves with immediacy, their shock is one use only, and, spent, you feel used, having been inside you deployed themselves and left, the "bad" in 5 years will appear tasteful, mannered compositions of their time, totally respectable, but you'll remember.


See too: Aaron Curry at Michael Werner, Charline von Heyl at Gisela Capitain

Aaron Curry at Michael Werner



Sometimes you see something so awful words lack and dismay suspends time to second guess yourself. But these are just the worst. Unbelievable ugly. Appropriated high school noodling made irrepressible paintings. So bad they look from the future. It’s like you thought it couldn’t get any worse, but then it did. All of primitivist colonialism in teenage-bedroom’s unthought posters. It’s like being cybernetically plugged into a powerful video game and then cerebrally taken against your will. Curry’s penchant for theft finally stealing from people without recourse, teenage boys, Giger, all the lowest, brandished in neon green, Curry stealing candy from the helpless masses not consecrated as art.