Not exact matches
Here's what they have done: Hanna, the woman from Hungary,
melts milk chocolate and
paints Harry's body with tantalizing tickles; She warms up some Manuka honey and drip it onto Harry's chest, then lick it off with her sensitive tongue; She dusts icing sugar on her nipples; She gives Harry a blow job under his desk at the office; Harry gives his Hungarian woman an orgasm by touching her sweet spot under the table of a restaurant; Hanna gives Harry a blow job
while Harry is on the phone with a co-worker;
Perhaps the most surprising work of this trio and the one that looks the most disconcertingly new — as if
painted by a young zombie formalist feminist artist — is «Voyage,» in which appliquéd bits of textile
melt into the surface
while other textile patterns appear as silhouettes, not literally collaged on but, rather, spray -
painted.
It is
painted while in a hot,
melted form.
The cast of an arm fixed to a wall in In the Studio carries splotches,
while a
painting depicted near this limb, appears to be
melting.
As you get closer to the
painting, the trees break down into
melting, psychedelic forms,
while the flatly rendered camouflage sweatshirt could serve as the basis for an abstract
painting in its own right.
Even though Burri was never explicitly tied to any movement, to most viewers his abstract «unpainted
paintings» should appear comfortable in his cultural moment, absorbing the monochromatic interests of Abstract Expressionists,
while also setting the ground for Arte Povera and assemblage art.The co-curators work extensively to expand these associations through the exhibition's wall labels, which relate Burri to various artists, works, and moments far beyond the scope of midcentury abstraction, including Piero della Francesca's Madonna of Partition (1455 — 6)(for the subject of incised fabric), Joseph Beuys (as an artist formed by war), Italian Neorealist cinema (for its use of artifice and rupture to reappropriate the realism of Facist war propaganda), and even Rodin's Gates of Hell (1880 --- 1917)(for the «Combustione Plastica» series» hellish
melting of form).
In the short time I was there, I witnessed the extreme
melting rate first hand as the sound of ice cracking was an instant background noise
while painting.