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Matthew Houdini The most important artist of his generation
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Matthew Houdini
“The most important artist of his generation”
The silver screen’s image is seductive; more than the expensive, untouchable props displayed at the Guggenheim. ... Textures are forbidden to the point where one cannot help but wonder what is left of Matthew Barney’s work without tactile experience? ... My suspicious nature asks if this “Most Important Artist of His Generation”,,3 as Michael Kimmelman from the New York Times calls him, is largely a product of a campaigning attempt by the Guggenheim’s to capture public attention. ...
And as Daniel Baird finished his review in the Brooklyn Rail there is a little doubt that Matthew Barney is already, at 36, a prodigious and even visionary artist; the finest moments of both the films and the exhibit are mad and rapturous. ... 5 Not that I don’t belive on young genuis, but when everything looks as an art set-up for the release of “the most important artist of its generation” …jjmmjjmm I’m sure Mis Barabara Gladstone, Mis Spector, The Art Collectors, and All the other that are going for Barney’s enshrining are keeping the fingers crossed in favor of the Matew Houdini of this era.
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Title: Matthew Houdini The most important artist of his generation
Words: 1238 Rating: None Pages: 5 submitted by: xigargo
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