The lush and
sprawling installation feels like the perfect harbinger of spring.
Not exact matches
For this sparest of
installations — which
feels radical next to the overbearing clusterfuck exhibitions so au courant these days (Mike Kelley they ain't)-- the artist puts the
sprawl where his mouth is and delivers a rollicking, multipronged poem.
There is the danger of any agglomeration of stuff tipping over into what Saltz called «clusterfuck esthetics» — «the practice of mounting
sprawling, often infinitely organized, jam - packed carnivalesque
installations,» which, he wrote in 2005, «is making more and more galleries and museums
feel like department stores, junkyards, and disaster films.»
Her
sprawling, makeshift sculptures and
installations have a homemade
feel, their vulnerability reiterated in the reuse of domestic or familiar elements.
, but also two large - scale creations: a substantial cinematic work shown in a
sprawling but comfortable first floor «rec room,» more playpen for grown ups than video
installation, and upstairs, another literally «soft» environment: a
felt - carpeted room installed in the project space supplemented with found furniture and coffee smells.