Anne Speier at Neue Alte Brücke

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Scanner art, of Guyton\Walker, Stahl, et. al, assimilated images of a new found visual physicality ala mode. The ice cream weight of objects reproduced in spectacular resolution delivering a “realness” reserved for the plastic world of Advertising and Bouguereau. The eye’s intoxication in overload bordering on psychedelic.  As Speier's literal minded paintings juxtapose, this overload of retinal pleasure is a real version of the world’s cartoonification, reality stretched to meet its new digital overlords welcomed, the computer’s vision more real than our own, and everyone stressed, cracks, falling over laughing.

See too : "Puddle, pothole, portal" at Sculpture Center , Amanda Ross-Ho at Approach

Group Show at Neue Alte Brücke

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Artists: Magnus Andersen, George Rippon, Anna Zacharoff, Julien Nguyen
Exhibition Title: Late European Decadence

Neue Alte Brücke set the trend that come full circle to be greet with their own franchise deemed International Style, and so if this doesn't look “fresh” it at least looks current, hegemonically so; possibly the most important thing today is that art look fine, just fine, without an excess of presence and an irony to cut its own heel, a bridge to the new old decadence.


See too : Transatlantic Transparency at Mathew