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Skin and guts–Rudolf Stingel at the Whitney

Rudolf Stingel, June 28-October 14, 2007, Whitney Museum of American ArtPhoto by Sheldon C. Collins. The room is a street-punk Versailles. After years of knocking ourselves out on each trip we take to New York, we have finally calmed down a little. This time we didn’t walk until we dropped. And this time we didn’t try to see everything from the Bronx to the Battery to Bed-Sty. The top attraction of going to New York was Roberta’s friend photographer Madelyn Roehrig (see post). She was visiting MoMA and the Whitney. But we decided it was the Whitney’s Rudolf Stingel exhibit ... More » »

Paint me a sheep

DSCN0725.jpgOriginally uploaded by sokref1. Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (After Sam) oil on canvas, 2005-6. Click image to see it bigger. So if the idiosyncratic poster project in the Whitney Biennial 2006 catalog is called Draw me a Sheep (see post) I’d call the idiosyncratic paintings in the show Paint me a sheep. The paintings are a funny lot that mostly don’t stand out in a show with incredible visual noise. So it’s not a big painting biennial. But then neither was the last one if memory serves. I don’t have much to say other than that Rudolf Stingel‘s huge photo-realist self-portrait ... More » »