text by JULIANA BALESTIN
photo by OLIVIER ZAHM
Rob Pruitt’s exhibition Pattern and Degradation was shown last September at both Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Maccarone. It was something of a comeback show for Pruitt and it set the bar for the coming art season. The show occupied over 13,000 square feet of gallery space and Pruitt employed the Amish tradition of Rumspringa (jumping around) as his method of exploring the implications of artistic irresponsibility. Pruitt, whose interests in cultural excess went unappreciated in the era of political correctness, combined traditional objects like quilts with iconic styles of presentation, such as those employed by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Pruitt then upturned it all with his clever use of unexpected materials and techniques, as in the portraits he constructed using Surrealim’s technique of improvisatory assembly called “exquisite corpse.”
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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