A major mid-career retrospective
of David Salle's work will open this spring at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and will then travel to the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, the Castello di Rivoli in Turin and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
It's a messy / confusing subject — compare the completeness / the cleanness
of David Salle's «explanation» of Laura Owens's work, the completeness of Owens's «success» — but Anne's is a real / substantial subject.
Roberta Smith: «From an American viewpoint this work stirs together the appropriated images
of David Salle, Richard Philips and Martin Kippenberger and the collage narratives of the Los Angeles artist Alexis Smith.
By the 1980s, Picabia's layered compositions and deployment of kitsch were an inspiration
of David Salle and Sigmar Polke.
That which was meaningless becomes meaningful; that which was full of meaning becomes free of sense: such painting hovers above these two fathomless depths» (A. Mulder, «Images That Come from Outside: The Experiential Paintings
of David Salle», in David Salle: 20 Years of Painting, exh.
«In several
of David Salle's paintings,» she wrote, «a mysterious dark - haired woman appears, raising a half - filled glass to her lips.
The latest showcase of new pieces
of David Salle art is coming to Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, putting on display his brand new artistic visions.
So, how much of this book can also be read as a genealogy
of that David Salle's work?
How to See is not the book that solves the mystery
of David Salle, but it's certainly a fine read as far as art writing goes.
Since his dynamite assessment of last year's «Forever Now» show at MoMA — which in many ways struck me as better and more thoughtful than the exhibition itself, particularly in its ability to map current trends in painting onto styles of contemporary fiction — I have been a fan
of David Salle's writing on art.
MR. DECKER: So what work in the past ten years or so has been interesting to you - along with
that of David Salle?
This approach has had many repercussions, most obviously in the work
of David Salle and Julian Schnabel, but its effects are visible throughout the art of the 1980's.
No one seemed to notice the last Biennial, and I can not bear to think what Europe's top museum directors made
of David Salle even long after Salle's early paintings.
Nostalgia / Utopia immediately reminds of the gallery's recent exhibition
of David Salle with large format paintings intersected with unexpected objects.
From the works of Barbara Kruger, known for her poignant social, cultural, and political critique and intimate portraits by the acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz to the colorful works of Kenny Scharf and
those of David Salle, who regenerated big, gestural, expressionist painting after years of pared - down minimalism and conceptual art, we bring you some outstanding works of art from the roaring 1980s in all its diversity, straight from our own Marketplace..
Perhaps a bit
of David Salle is in them too, but without his rectangular confining devices or sexual images.
A whole new generation of death blows came to New York by around 1980, with Neo-Expressionists like Georg Baselitz or Julian Schnabel, the cold sensuality
of David Salle and Eric Fischl, and the politically loaded irony of Barbara Kruger and the «Picture generation.»
As New York Times art critic Roberta Smith has noted, the paintings
of David Salle, another key figure from this period, are «pictorially rooted in Pop Art's use of common or degraded images», layering elements drawn from high and low culture.
Faith and Mira would always do well, in my opinion, but their journey was so different from
that of David Salle and Eric Fischl, who were their colleagues at Cal - Arts, because theirs was a woman's point of view in the art - making process and that was not something that was really acceptable.
When I was there on Thursday, the show was
of David Salle's paintings and many, according to Warren, were sold.
All artworks images copyright
of David Salle / licensed by Vaga, New York, and courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Not exact matches
See, for instance, Whitehead's RM; Hartshorne's Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method (La
Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1970); John B. Cobb, Jr.'s «Buddhist Emptiness and the Christian Cod,» Journal
of the American Academy
of Religion 45/1 (March, 1977), 11 - 26; and Christ in a Pluralistic Age (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1975); for several critical dialogues on this issue, see John Cobb's Theology in Process, edited by
David Ray Griffin and Thomas J. J. Altizer (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1977).
On the Road, Walter
Salles's adaptation
of the Jack Kerouac novel starring Kristen Stewart, walked away empty - handed, as did Cosmopolis, the
David Cronenberg film featuring Stewart's Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson.
Twin Peaks: The Return (
David Lynch, 2017) Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017) Toivon tuolla puolen (The Other Side
of Hope, Aki Kaurismaki, 2017) Split (M. Night Shyamalan, 2016) A Fabrica de Nada (The Nothing Factory, Pedro Pinho, 2017) Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016) Bamui haebyun - eoseo honja (On the Beach at Night Alone, Hong Sang - soo, 2017) Gen - hu (The Day After, Hong Sang - soo, 2017) Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017) Rey (Niles Atallah, 2017) Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993, Carla Simon, 2017) Colo (Teresa Villaverde, 2017) Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, 2016) La Flor (Parte 1)(La Flor: Primera Parte, Mariano Llinás, 2016) Gok - seong (The Wailing, Na Hong - jin, 2016) Inimi cicatrizate (Scarred Hearts, Radu Jude, 2016) The Autopsy
of Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016) Tumble (Robert Todd, 2016) António Um Dois Três (Leonardo Mouramateus, 2017) Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016) Good Time (Ben Safdie & Josh Safdie, 2017) Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016) No Intenso Agora (In the Intense Now, Joao Moreira
Salles, 2017) It Comes at Night (Trey Edward Shults, 2017) The LostCity
of Z (James Gray, 2017) In Praise
of Nothing (Boris Mitic, 2017) Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa, 2017) i hate myself:)(Joanna Arnow, 2013 - 2017) Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes (Self Criticism
of a Burgoise Dog, Julian Radlmaier, 2017) ΕΥΡΩΠΗ (Mario Sanz, 2017) Hell or High Water (
David Mackenzie, 2016)
As the title implies, it provides 41 rejected attempts at beginning a profile
of the artist
David Salle, a megastar painter in the 1980s whose reputation had started to wane by the time Malcolm began interviewing him in the early 1990s.
The magazine's thousands
of contributors have included Alfred Barr, Bernard Berenson, Kenneth Clark, Robert Coles, Arthur Danto, Carlos Fuentes, Pete Hamill, Aldous Huxley, Steve Martin, Louise Nevelson, Bob Nickas, Francine Prose, Harold Rosenberg,
David Salle, Jean - Paul Sartre, and William Carlos Williams.
In the 1980s
David Salle's achingly cold paintings
of layered and collaged images helped define postmodern sensibilities.
That includes the Neo-Expressionism
of Georg Baselitz and Julian Schnabel, but also the likes
of Eric Fischl and
David Salle.
At the same time, since it was 1980, the work
of people like Julian Schnabel and
David Salle led to a reinvention
of painting.
So the advantage
of film is that it allows for this gap, or distance, in the same way that, as
David Salle used to say, «distance equals control.»
According to the Whitney, Neil Jenney, Susan Rothenberg,
David Salle, Eric Fischl, Philip Guston, and Jean - Michel Basquiat, along with a few other Neo-Expressionists in the seventies are the so - called rescuers
of figure painting who brought it back to life - that fiction is reserved to the third floor.
Like Goldstein, four
of its other artists studied at Cal Arts with John Baldessari — Barbara Bloom, Matt Mullican,
David Salle, and James Welling.
The book also includes vignettes and recollections
of Eric by fellow artists
David Salle, Julian Schnabel, art dealer Mary Boone, friend and art aficionado Steve Martin, and a score
of others.
As resistant as I am to using the word «appropriation» — redolent, as it is,
of the shake - and - bake school
of picture making typified by
David Salle — it does go some way in explaining why so much
of the work here seemed secondhand, patchy, even a bit phony.
When he began making headway in the early eighties, the city was giving itself over to the painterly swagger
of the neo-Expressionists:
David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Jean - Michel Basquiat, especially.
From left,
David Hammons and Bruce Talamon in front
of Hammons's La
Salle Street studio in Los Angeles in 1977.
Nearby, more stand out works abound, including a rare Bruce Nauman sculpture at Hauser & Wirth (E10), End Tunnel Folded Into Four Arms with Common Walls (1980); an investigation
of the relationship between drawing and sculpture in the work
of Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Morris at Castelli (F11); and works by
David Salle, Cindy Sherman and George Condo at Skarstedt (E14).
Rail: You were a micro-beat behind the moment
of Julien Schnabel and
David Salle.
In The Hamptons, paintings in the»80s decade received a closer look through the art
of Eric Fischl,
David Salle and Ross Bleckner at the Parrish Art Museum's «Unfinished Business: Paintings From the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and
David Salle.»
Here was an only vaguely known, or for many
of us a previously unheard
of, German artist who, in works dating from 1972, had brought off with great confidence something similar to what one was seeing, and being excited by, in the new American paintings by, among others, Julian Schnabel,
David Salle, Carroll Dunham, and Terry Winters.
With such notorious and controversial paintings as Bad Boy and Sleepwalker, Fischl joined the front ranks
of American artists, in a high - octane downtown art scene that included Andy Warhol,
David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and others.
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because
of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well... That present tense - ness is the deepest pleasure» —
David Salle «There is art that reflects the singular self, and there is art that reveals a nonsingular, fragmented self.
• Ed Paschke (1939 — 2004), neon - lit Chicago Pop artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), world - famous sculptor
of elevated banality and gleaming toys Prema Murthy (b. 1969), Net - conscious media artist Sarah Morris (b. 1967), brainy geometric abstractionist and appropriationist Jennifer Rubell (b. 1970), food artist extraordinaire Tony Matelli (b. 1971), hyperrealistic sculptor
of flora and aggressive fauna • Edward Kienholz (1927 — 1994), Ferus gallery co-founder, iconic Los Angeles artist Jack Goldstein (1945 — 2003), Pictures Generation star and looper
of films Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959), Neo-Geo artist
of lurid island pop Mark Dion (b. 1961), naturalist conceptualist and arch-cataloguer • Vito Acconci (b. 1940), seminal father
of transgressive»70s performance art Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951), artist - turned - «Hurt Locker» director Ken Feingold (b. 1952), conceptualist sculptor
of heads Robert Longo (b. 1953), wizard
of charcoal and graphite, disturber
of «Men in Cities» Mark Innerst (b. 1957), engineering - slanted landscape painter Brock Enright (b. 1976), postmodern pop - culture investigator
David Salle (b. 1952), brainy Neo-Expressionist descendent
of Picabia Annette Lemieux, lecturer
of visual and environmental studies at Harvard Michele Zalopany, pastel Postmodernist • Dan Graham (b. 1942), sculptor
of reflective / transparent psychological architecture R.H. Quaytman (b. 1961), literary - minded process painter
of high intellectual wattage Cameron Rowland (b. 1988), conceptual found - object sculptor • Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), Neo-Expressionist godhead and Hollywood filmmaker Bill Saylor, sketchy maximalist and Harmony Korine collaborator Greg Bogin (b. 1965), post-Net minimalist
Was it the «Pictures generation»
of Sherrie Levine and
David Salle soon after, with their critique
of the avant - garde?
Gary is an artist I knew about in the 80s; he was showing at Mary Boone, he was part
of that Julian Schnabel, Ross Buckner,
David Salle crew, that all came up at the same time, and were recognized for somehow returning painting the conversation about contemporary art.
Indeed, in its affinities with the work
of Sigmar Polke and
David Salle, Picabia's late Work often looks Strikingly contemprary.
David Salle looks at Louise Bourgeois's graphic work at MoMA and reads Robert Storr's monograph on the artist in the New York Review
of Books.
The big, playful paintings in this exhibition, from Dexter Dalwood's fantasy landscape mash - ups to
David Salle's postmodern explosions
of thought and colour, could just as easily be painted on a wall in London or Cairo as on canvas.
Early
David Salle and late Andy Warhol were both painting the death
of painting.
Artists Bryan Hunt,
David Salle and Ralph Gibson are included in the painting inspired by group photographs made by Hans Namuth
of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and other artists gathered on a sand dune, according to Phyllis Tuchman, who wrote the essay for the exhibition.