Barbara Kruger at Sprüth Magers

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Words are cruel, advertising is crueler, deploying statements as an injection like bludgeon. Words like bat on the aluminum of your skull, recognition, legibility. Advertising takes advantage of your ability to see, to read, of human's innate need to recognize the information of your surroundings, so put words bigly around and watch people look and read without thinking, the delivered words already standing inside your head, whacking away at sense. Kruger's popularity in the Supreme irony of advertising is the desire to castigate its belittling skull-whack by owning it, approving it yourself, asking for it, taking the poison of alcohol on the daily to numb the feeling.

Group Show at Sprüth Magers

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The Sherman tank was most numerous for the United States proving to be reliable and mobile. Despite being outclassed by German mediums and heavy, Sherman was cheaper to produce and available in greater numbers. Thousands were distributed, stressing reliability, ease of production, durability, standardization of parts and ammunition in a limited number of variants, along with moderate size and weight. These factors, combined with Sherman's then-superior armament, outclassed other's and Sherman went on to be produced in large numbers, spearheaded by the Western alliance. The relative ease of production allowed huge numbers of Sherman to be manufactured, and significant investment allowed returning service. These factors combined to give the American numerical superiority. Despite its deficiencies to other superior German as well as other American tanks, Sherman won the war through its adaptation to modernization techniques.