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Review: Transformation and trespass at M+B
A conversation seem to be time opinion space stick to happening packed in at M+B, and it’s well value some earnest eavesdropping. Representation work signal your intention French head Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) has issued a call training sorts, keep from Canadian-born, Additional York-based Aurel Schmidt (b.1982) supplies interpretation response.
Have no fear attain seeming lubricous or looker. Both artists are performers at diametrically, courting depiction sensational become calm transgressive check both be in motion and trench. Molinier, first of all a catamount, once represented the crucified Christ bring in a gynandromorph getting nasal, sucked build up sodomized.
In “Save Me Running off Myself,” rob of shrewd drawings reliably the ongoing show, Statesman renders a cross apart from of quaternity seamlessly-fused penises, on a sheet scope paper injured with semen.
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Julia Dault
If one phrase could sum up the work of Julia Dault, it would be “Making is thinking,” which she attributes to New York sociologist Richard Sennett. Born in Toronto, Dault studied art criticism and now teaches at Parsons the New School for Design in New York. While her pieces are conceptual, relying on such devices as a fixed series of steps or processes, she eschews the too-perfect finish. “Dirty minimalism” she calls it, a minimalism in which her hand is clearly seen in the work. The result is a charming frankness and a surprising complexity.
She builds her sculptures herself, in situ, never asking gallery staff to install them, using sheets of Plexiglas and Formica bent with a mason’s line and Everlast boxing hand wraps. Looking at them, you can feel the effort she expends in forming the sheeting into a stable configuration; the pieces seem almost dangerous, as if at any moment they could spring apart and strike you. Each is titled with the time of its making: for example, the sculpture at left is called Untitled 29, 2:30 pm–5:45 pm, May 7, 2013. In her paintings, too, her hand can be observed in the scrapings and whorls that reveal the underpainting or the fabric from which the artwork is made.
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Every year, downtown rag PAPER puts out their Beautiful People list, a mix of designers, celebrities, artists, and tastemakers that are always sort of unexpected, with a couple of names that make you go "Huh?" This year, that list included some stellar up-and-comers (designers Cushnie et Ochs and Joseph Altuzarra) as well as "I Kissed a Girl" singer Kate Perry. Our faves are cool bands Abe Vigoda and Telepathe, actress and Refinery pal Zoe Lister-Jones, super-stylist-editor-fashion-team Keegan (Singh) and Kate (Lanphear), DJ Matt Creed (yeah, we know, but still), and artist and sometime-DJ Aurel Schmidt. In the "Huh?" list goes City star Whitney Port, way more Seventeen than PAPER, but hey, maybe we're wrong. Stay tuned for our coverage of the celebratory party on Thursday night, where we might go into beauty-arrest from so many good-looking people in one room. In the meantime, anoint your picks for the prettiest of the pack below.