Sadie Benning at Susanne Vielmetter

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Despite Cartoon's hard edges their bodies are taffy, manipulable to an extreme. Abstract a human you get gore, abstract a cartoon you get comedy. What this transition means, real to cartoon, and our want for it remains to be seen.

Sadie Benning at Mary Boone & Callicoon Fine Arts

(Mary Boone & Callicoon Fine Arts)

Cushioning their hard edges with padded walls of cartoons that allowed the wiley Coyote to suffer enormous blunt trauma because he was soft stretchable taffy amplifying the ambiguity of Benning's drawing against the inserted images which are hard immalleable records against the malleable flesh of the body, the equally amorphous icons.