Jesse Benson at Michael Benevento

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Making sense of the world through difference, categorization, exclusion, separating objects under different labels to make language, names, we, when paintings "involving the painstaking brushstroke-for-brushstroke hand replication of painted images" "re-painted by Benson with at least one visual deviation from the original" "and subtle gallery space alterations," difference and repetition becoming a see through thin, the asymptotic approach to image, falling towards the ground it aims at and missing, closer, closer, closer, feel vertigo.


Past: Jesse Benson at Michael Benevento

Jesse Benson at Michael Benevento

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Whereas Jonas Wood highlights the rendered pressed through the grate of subjectivity (expression), Benson's accuracy in strategic non-expression, like Celmins or Sturtevant, the lack thereof (of expression), neutering the subjective, the closer it can be to being without qualities, is its psychedelic quality. The paintings warble in closeness to a reality that they fail to produce. The black object marks it with a wink, a game. The mistakes are its value. Banal and iridescent.


and so see too: Jonas Wood at David Kordansky , Mathew Cerletty at Office Baroque , Jana Euler at Kunsthalle Zürich