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David Humphrey, Ilya Kabakov: Document generated on 09/28/2021 12:07 a.m. ETC David Humphrey, Ilya Kabakov "David and Goliath" Meyer Raphael Rubinstein L’art du marché Number 5, Fall 1988 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1004ac See table of contents Publisher(s) Revue d'art contemporain ETC inc. ISSN 0835-7641 (print) 1923-3205 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this review Rubinstein, M. R. (1988). Review of [David Humphrey, Ilya Kabakov: "David and Goliath"]. ETC, (5), 98–100. Tous droits réservés © Revue d'art contemporain ETC inc., 1988 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ ACfUALIfE/EXPOSIflONS David Humphrey, Ilya Kabakov "David and Goliath" ® Installation View, "David and Goliath", summer exhibition 1988. Jack Shainman Gallery NYC left to right : Marc Maet, Petah Coyne, Tom Dean, Nilli Kopf, Michel Goulet) avid and Goliath" at Jack Shainman — Bruno Ceccobelli's Da v/d", a small mixed media « Under the title "David and Goliath" a recent piece utilizing a sling shot more as a pendulum than a group show at Jack Shainman Gallery weapon, was the only work to specifically address the brought together 14 artists from 7 different title of the show. Luigi Carboni, the third of countries. While most group shows are Shainman's "three C's", offers what might be called "arte povera of the mailroom" in which cardboard based on the similarities of the artists in­ shipping tubes have been painted and placed on a series volvedD, this one highlighted differences. As the title of racks together with a couple of metal rings and a suggests, size was the determining factor. While the black ball. Inhabiting a middle ground between sculp­ large number of works and the relative smallness of the ture and painting, Carboni's piece, Gas Ape, possessed gallery did not allow for dramatic contrasts, say a an off-hand originality that made it one of the best Kounellis next to a Morandi, there were nonetheless moments of the show. various striking contrasts. The imposing dimensions of "David and Goliath" also included three Cana­ Heptacross, a stately geometric abstraction by the dian artists : Tom Dean, Michel Goulet and Michael Belgian painter Marc Maet, dwarf a diminutive water- Snow. Snow, who has long been absent from the New color by James Hansen; a massive clot of sticks and York scene but is still accorded respect for his early mud by Petah Coyne hangs from the ceiling, while experimental films, was represented by a large photo­ huddled in a comer, barely noticeable, is a group of graph showing a table of ceramic sculptures. By paint­ small terra-cotta sculptures by Luigi Campanelli. ing directly onto the photograph Snow has given each of the ceramic pieces, which he made himself, strange Another easily missed piece was a wall sculpture by colorations that are at once luminous and pastel. Zizi Raymond, a young New York artist. A metal stool Michel Goulet is represented by one of his rifle series, was attached to the wall at a height of some 15 feet on Lead Bread. In this piece the usual eight old fashioned which a pair of black shoes was placed, their tips rifles, opened at the breech, are leaning against the wall peeking over the edge of the chair, as if the Invisible with a pair of elongated metal tongs next to each gun. Man were about to do a death defying stunt. Balanced on the top of each barrel is a volume of an David Humphrey, 1988 Photo : D. James Dee encyclopedia with a circular hole cut out of it and on top or discourses, rather the contradictory elements are of each volume a thick slice of bread cast in lead. For forced to inhab it a single space simultaneously. In this viewer Lead Bread suggested a capsule history of cinematic terms, Humphrey fa\orsmis-en-scene rather 19th century life on the plains of North America : rifles than montage. Look, for example, at his etching Plug. to shoot Native Americans and buffalo, tongs for The woman's head and shoulders, the floating chunks making horse shoes and wagon wheels, encyclopedias of landscape and the oozing biomorph embody three for lonely self-education, culminating in the inedible different kinds of painting and seemed to have sud­ bread of the White man's bitter harvest. Tom Dean denly been "beamed down" to the same rectangle yet showed a floor sculpture consisting of four cast steel — and this is what gives the work its particular uncan- objects. Variously biomorphic and specific, they seem niness — they respect each others' presence. The concerned with metamorphosis — in one piece a snake biomorph does not overlap the floating islands, the turns into a spoon — though the sense of mutability did shadow under the larger island does not overlap the not extend itself to the material which was employed in woman's head. Though he breaks some rules, a too matter-of-fact manner. Dean has done much Humphrey carefully follows others. (For example of better work : his surrealist tables and "Cousin It" wigs. the rules he breaks, notice the different light sources A more successful transformation was achieved by used for the woman's head and the floating islands.) Paul Bowen's untitled sculpture in which a real fish tail This mix of techniques, with a surrealist-flavored figu­ protruded from a sphere apparently made of shoe soles. ration predominating, is not particularly fashionable "David and Goliath" also included work by these days, nor is Humphrey's rather literary psycho­ logical probing, but he would be foolish if he let fashion Robert McCurdy, Ulrich Diekmann and Willi Kopf. set him off his chosen path, for it is often through David Humphrey at Cone Editions — David persevering in "wrong" directions that the most valua­ Humphrey is a New York painter in his early 30's who ble, and eventually universally acclaimed results are shows regularly at the prestigious David McKee Gal­ reached, as the example of Guston so forcefully lery. (McKee was Philip Guston's dealer and conti­ proved. nues to show a seemingly endless number of marvelous paintings from Guston's last years.) Hard on the heels of a show of paintings at McKee, Humphrey recently unveiled a group of etchings at Cone Editions. Ilya Kabakov at Ronald Feldman — In La vie : Mode The two strains of painting that come together in d'Emploi, the French novelist Georges Perec's master­ Humphrey's work are surrealism and organic piece, the reader is systematically introduced to the abstraction. Most of us would like to have things both various inhabitants of a Parisian apartment building. ways but common sense tells us that we had better As the omniscient narrative moves through the various choose what we're best at and stick to that; Humphrey, floors and rooms, Perec gradually overwhelms us with whether because he is foolhardy or simply able to a profusion of details and stories about each resident, as entertain two opposing ideas at the same time, refuses well as all the former residents, until a kind of encyclo­ to follow this sage advice. His work juxtaposes incom­ pedic epiphany is reached and the book's improbable patible presences. This, of course, is nothing unusual in characters become synonymous with the first words of modern art, but what distinguishes Humphrey's work from the modem and postmodern taste for non-sequi- the title. A recent installation by the Soviet artist Ilya turs is chiefly the unified space he positions his mis­ Kabakov, at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, achieves much matched elements in. He does not juxtapose in the the same effect through similar means. Before address­ manner of a David Salle, that is to say, meaning is not ing this installation, titled Ten Characters, perhaps a achieved through simply colliding two different spaces few words about Kabakov would be in order. space and, looking up, notice a gaping hole in the ceiling. A text on the wall tells his story. Ten Charac­ ters is filled with texts and to read them all, in the poor light that is no doubt typical of such apartments, makes demands on the reader that are closer to a volume of short stories than an art exhibition. While this taste for the text makes sense in light of Kabakov's concep- tualist leanings, it is also true that he possesses a real literary talent. In a dossier provided by the gallery one is able to read all the texts from the exhibition and, rather than seeming mere supplements to the visual experience, these pages are completely absorbing in their own right. Weaving together his own comments with statements by the characters, observations of their neighbors and "official" documents, Kabakov reveals himself to be an important Soviet writer as well as artist. But then, in totalitarian societies the written word has always been more important than visual art, if only because it is easier to distribute and hide. At the end of the exhibition we meet "The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away." The walls of his room are covered with rows of hundreds of objects, each with a label underneath it. Making your way through the gloom, you approach one of the objects — a small fleck of unidentifiable dried matter — and then Ilya Kabakov, The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Apartment, read the label : "from a cucumber." Another crumb is 1981-88.
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