Richard Prince: Kunsthalle Zurich. (Zurich).Organized by Kunsthalle Zurich director Beatrix Ruf, this is essentially a Prince survey minus the photo-based works that put him on the map. (A sampling of those images, currently at the Kunstmuseum Basel, will join the paintings to form a full retrospective this summer at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.) How will these paintings spanning 1985 to 2001--including various Borscht Belt borscht belt or Borscht Belt n. Informal The predominantly Jewish resort hotels of the Catskill Mountains. Also called borscht circuit. joke montages, car hoods, and abstractions--fare in a climate rapidly chilling to appropriation, irony, and "bad painting"? Will the one-liners resonate res·o·nate v. res·o·nat·ed, res·o·nat·ing, res·o·nates v.intr. 1. To exhibit or produce resonance or resonant effects. 2. and the perversity per·ver·si·ty n. pl. per·ver·si·ties 1. The quality or state of being perverse. 2. An instance of being perverse. Noun 1. prove compelling rather than just naughty? Given the waning chic of his brand of cerebral gaming, it will be interesting to see which of Prince's paintings fall by the wayside way·side n. The side or edge of a road, way, path, or highway. adj. Situated at or near the side of a road, way, path, or highway: a wayside inn. and which hold up. Feb. 2-Apr. I. |
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