Imhof continues to describe herself as a painter, but she is best known for several elaborately choreographed performances. One could leave it at that if it weren’t for the ghosts of bodies that might use the lockers on the way into a General Motors plant. Imhof is a talented painter and draughtswoman. The drawings-mostly hung in a back space that functions as an office-are likely there so people have something to buy. The untitled cloud painting is compelling-beautiful in a Monet’s waterlilies sort of way. ![]() ![]() The lockers containing concrete blocks as a way of staging giant, slightly abstracted car doors is almost too literal if you have even a glancing, film-based familiarity with industrial production. While no performance will be held here, it is impossible not to think of it as a set absent the actors-which, given the function of lockers and the potential density of bodies in a locker room, isn’t far-fetched, even if we bracket the German artist’s fame as a dramaturge. “AVATAR” is an installation featuring rows of industrial lockers, cored concrete blocks, a large, three-panel painting of clouds, figurative drawings, and new additions to Anne Imhof’s series of “Scratch Paintings”-large aluminum panels coated in custom automobile paint with patterns scratched into them by the artist.
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