Guy Mees at Mu.ZEE

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In the scheme of history it's better to have one good idea than many. It seems the most ran one idea into the ground, or at most a few iconic periods. Artists have a use to history, becoming placeholders for ideas in our stories. She was an early identity photographer, he was a minimalist. They were an Italian group of magical sculptors. Artists are their own identity package, a brand. And probably any one of these could have been a career, the younger artists already feasting upon.

Lili Dujourie at Mu.ZEE & S.M.A.K.

(Mu.Zee, S.M.A.K.)

Dujourie, like a less sarcastic Zobernig. If minimalism's primary structures were so reduced to their axiom as to become iconic, Dujourie's polishes outs an object unspecific, un-iconic, hard to hang language on something so rounded, making for strange viewing experience of objects so general they become difficult to articulate, defintion fleets quickly away, conceptually formless but having the look of art objects.


See too : Group Show at Salle Principale, “The Crack-Up” at Room East