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Monday, February 7, 2022

Martín Soto Climent at Michael Benevento Gallery

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Sprinkling charcoal through panties, you would think these would be sexier than they are. Gartered paintings instead cut and and framed to chaste design, to art. But what is sexy has been ruined by artists for years, bodies crumpled like cans for composition, for harmony among shape, among mind, and so these have a long lineage to work with.