Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Nick Mauss at Emanuela Campoli

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The original frizz of architectural decor in its becoming-painting has seemed to have just become painting. But it's a mirror! Okay. A different substrate, a little looser. Like the wildfire aha of painted televisions, a new substrate ostensibly is new ground. Not really. But the reversal is comedy. Painters today don't start with a blank canvas, they start with collector-abstraction and work backwards. The gesture is obligated, the choice is what can hold it.