Jonathan Lasker: Palacio Velazquez, Reina Sofia. (Madrid).One after the other, artists of the '80s are being rescued from postmodernism by valiant revisionist re·vi·sion·ism n. 1. Advocacy of the revision of an accepted, usually long-standing view, theory, or doctrine, especially a revision of historical events and movements. 2. critics and curators. Unlike other damsels in distress, Jonathan Lasker Jonathan Lasker (born 1948) in Jersey City,New Jersey. Lasker is an American artist who attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Lasker lives and works in New York City, New York. refuses to drop the hankie, resolutely holding on to disjunction disjunction /dis·junc·tion/ (-junk´shun) 1. the act or state of being disjoined. 2. in genetics, the moving apart of bivalent chromosomes at the first anaphase of meiosis. , preexisting pre·ex·ist or pre-ex·ist v. pre·ex·ist·ed, pre·ex·ist·ing, pre·ex·ists v.tr. To exist before (something); precede: Dinosaurs preexisted humans. v.intr. systems, and the impossibility of direct expression. Reina Sofia vice-director Kevin Power takes the hint, using language as the organizing conceit for his full-scale survey of Lasker's work. If this discourse is dated, the paintings are still here, and the show gives us the opportunity to reconsider them--not to recoup them for "beauty" but to think about their life as physical objects. (Power is joined by Robert Hobbs and Richard Milazzo in the catalogue.) June 5-Sept. 7; K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Sept. 20-Nov. 23. |
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