David Diao at Postmasters

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At its base, Diao's work appears as information. The work could be "meaningless" - contextually barren - and still retain a power by its ability to look decipherable, like ciphers, like things that denote a meaning with or without you.


See too: Vern Blosum at Kunsthalle Bern

Luigi Ontani at Kayu & Rafaël Rozendaal at Postmasters

(Kayu , Postmasters)

The sinister and infantilizing carnivalism of Höller's slide's exemplifies the mask that is "fun" art. The haiku's use their light and airy tic-tac cutery to ironize their ennui in contemporary tones, a verse to its unfun. Ontani's garish ornation play to their lurid Orientalist appropriation. 60's pop-art that explained that fun already contained its co-option, never to be seen by art again, that art precludes fun, and a thousand art objects like tombstones to its purity.

see too :  Darren Bader at Kolnischer Kunstverein , Yuki Okumura at Misako & Rosen , Ugo Rondinone at Krobath , Pierre Huyghe at LACMA , Lily van der Stokker at Koenig & Clinton , Lily van der Stokker at Air de Paris