stagnanTVowels

Our reality is changing, there is no room at the inn for the couch or the painting up above it. There is no room for normal as we think it has been experienced prior to now. We are living amidst the economic contractions of the communist and capitalist theories as they meet their limits. Aesthetically the dada and situationist moments were historical buffers for the impact of economic upheaval left in the wake of these two cruel oppressors, the C and the C. But both the dada and situationist movements were quickly assumed by the political forces manipulating their immediate realities. Think happy thoughts as the struggle continues. Think of oranges and lemons as the struggle continues. Wish upon an undecided science. See a star collapse in slow motion.

Willem DeKooning, Excavation (1950) oil on canvas Yesterday at work I bumped into this piece by Donald Kuspit on DeKooning's retrospective over at Artnet . Then this morning I bumped into this one on L Magazine's site, by Paddy Johnson . I don't know that Paddy Johnson demystifies DeKooning as much as she takes issue with his pallet, declaring it repetitive and boorish en masse. By contrast, Donald Kuspit writes an article painting DeKooning as a sadistic brute inextricably tied to the modern tradition in general and Picasso specifically. Together they make for some interesting reading, particularly as Kuspit never addresses the show itself in favor of drawing his conclusions from individual works. While Johnson seems to wear the show like an imaginary wool shawl, noting it's uncomfortable, out of style, and the zipper is broken. But she doesn't seem to get to a place that addresses what was actually there either, only what she felt was missing or to her mind ...

please enjoy this selection of images in the form of a transferable .jpg file Something I thought you folks might be interested in. May 13, 2011 to August 7, 2011, Tales (not truths) by The Mechanic & The Handyman, Jno Cook and Gordon Ligocki, Valparaiso University, Brauer Museum of Art. Curated by the wonderful and insiteful, Linda Dorman and Tom Torluemke. For those not in the know, Jno Cook is an unparalleled artist with a sardonic streak a mile wide. He is a maker, a tinkerer, and thinker of sentences that almost always involve punctuation. Mr Cook has aggressively investigated aesthetic with camera's, computers, soldering irons, and screwdrivers. He has displayed his works with such great spaces as NAME, Randolph Street, Artemesia, and Tough. Jno maintained representation with one of the final Uncomfortable Spaces, Beret International Gallery through (2000) and then with Uncle Freddy's Gallery, in Indiana through (2009). Prior to Facebook Jno developed spaces.o...