Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Maren Hassinger at Tiwani Contemporary


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Accumulate as ward against scarcity; arrange as ward against death. Identifying with the cast-off and detritus, seeing society waste and want not. Art which can express that lesser form of aesthetic judgement, compassion.

Minimalism's infatuation for the industrial process, of say Judd et al, was, in part, premised on these industrial processes deletion of the body and its "expression" (if not a promise of subjectivity excised entirely) in looking "pure," like objectivity, removing the human. ... Of course this was the lie of any commodity: that the clean aluminum sheets comprising boxes or laptops weren't simply wiped of their indentured sweat. Minimalism hid the body in the closet.

The hoarder artist re-stake the essential hand-care, human, blood, to what is considered by at best by most simply material. Treat waste with compassion.


Read: Melvin Edwards at Daniel BuchholzLutz Bacher at Galerie Buchholz and Sarah Rapson at Essex StreetSer Serpas at LUMA WestbauYuji Agematsu at LuluDylan Spaysky at Good WeatherDylan Spaysky at Clifton Benevento,