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This section of the show includes straightforward depictions as well as works that deal in a more oblique way with aspects related to the American territory, for instance questioning the way it is understood and represented in the popular imagination, or by presenting it as a beautiful and privileged spectacle ripe for plundering (by the movie industry and others).
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By sitting and standing with good posture you will be engaging your core muscles, these are all the way around your middle so your lower back, abdominals and obliques.
«I think it works really nicely in that last gallery where artists are struggling with those questions in a more oblique way, or even struggling with the question of what to paint.
I think there was a tradition that was going on — and goes way back — that had to do with oblique geometry.
The popup is organized in a way which suggests a kind of historical narrative progression, in contrast with the nonlinear configuration of Vertical Elevated Oblique.
It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.
The art critic Jörg Heiser has floated the term «romantic conceptualism» to describe what an artist such as Dean does, with her knowingly oblique and sometimes subtly frustrating approach to her subject matter, and her commitment to the beautiful way she frames it.
Coded references to contemporary art abound: to Joseph Beuys (a sled); Sam Gilliam (a swag painting called «The Grand Galactic Cape»); David Hammons (an oblique take on race); and, I would guess, to Mr. Johnson's slightly older contemporary Edgar Arceneaux, who has a similarly funky, visionary way with pop culture and art.
Whether it is through the oblique nature of our informational channels which function as echo chambers reminiscent of the earliest ways Nationalism spread through print media or the conflation of meaning with sacrifice, it is clear that there are precedents for how Nationalism as a construct has led to and sustained cycles of violence.
The project I've been so wrapped up in recently, called Seat Assignment, which was recently shown at Catharine Clark in San Francisco, has in some ways been an oblique response to this desire to work more with my hands.
In each case the artists link their work to craft and a social context, experimenting with very known means — photography, painting, and gallery installation — to arrive at something both familiar and strange, continuing in an oblique way the methodologies seen in the two exhibitions at Martin - Gropius - Bau.