text by JULIANA BALESTIN
In Karen Kilimnik’s show at 303 Gallery in New York, her tenth solo exhibition, the artist presented a somewhat tighter restaging of her seminal 1989 installation, The Hellfire Club Episode of The Avengers, along with four new paintings and a group of photographs of a girl who looks a lot like Emma Peel from the television series, The Avengers, the character who appears most prominently in the installation. In 1989, Kilimnik’s installations of images and objects were termed “scatter art” for their seemingly haphazard organization. But in this large Chelsea gallery The Hellfire Club was set up with black walls, broken chandeliers, photocopied images, quiet sound accompaniment — and a lot of empty space, which allowed visitors to drift back and forth, tapping into their nostalgia for the British television series, while perusing Kilimnik’s recent photographs and paintings, crafted with her signature loose, colorful, thrift-shop style.
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night pictures
night pictures by Olivier Zahm with a portfolio by Ron Galella
by Olivier Zahm
by Alex Israel
by Rachel Chandler
Noritoshi Hirakawa
by Sabine Heller
by Alex Israel
by Olivier Zahm
by Matt Sweeney
by Kazumi Asamura Hayashi
by Olivier Zahm
by Marcelo krasilcic
by Dominique Isserman
by Stacey Mark
by Camille Bidault Waddington
by Olivier Zahm
by Martien Mulder
by Steven Klein
by Magnus Unnar
by Theo Wenner
by Olivier Zahm
by Glenn O'Brien
by Lola Schnabel
by Olivier Amsellem