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Monday, December 1, 2008

Visual Art Currently Hanging

Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:03 AM

^{Enrico David's Bulbous Marauder (2008)}

At Seattle Art Museum. (Museum site here.)

Enrico David's new installation at Seattle Art Museum is made up of many parts, each of which has its own label, and each of which is separately called Bulbous Marauder. The whole thing all together is also called Bulbous Marauder (and this/these are not the only Bulbous Marauders by David). The installation as a whole is a dimly lit environment you wander around in, but you are like a ghost in there. The figures already there are the life of the thing. They are represented in paintings, posters, and sculptures, as if the whole thing were both a documentation of something that has already happened, and a reenactment.

The dodgy, winking, endlessly reproducible harlequins above bring to mind this singular Pierrot (Pierrot being the harlequin's counterpart in the commedia dell'arte).

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sources close to me ask, "is that what they mean by argyle?"

i like art, moreso at the Frye. also, i like turtles.

this week, with a helmet and reflectors, i'm speedily going to ride my one-gear bicycle to both museum exhibits.

Posted by eric burnett on December 1, 2008 at 11:26 AM

Primative renderings of harlequins and no mention of Picasso?

http://www.moma.org/images/collection/Fu…

Posted by tabletop_joe on December 1, 2008 at 11:50 AM

Saw this yesterday. Didn't do a lot for me, honestly. But the title reminds me of Captain Beefheart, "Fast and Bulbous". The mascara snake. Bulbous also tapered.

Posted by Fnarf on December 1, 2008 at 12:41 PM

Also, my favorite thing in SAM is "Salt on Mina Mina" by Dorothy Napangardi, bizarrely hung in the "Black Art" show (because it's black? because she's black?). It should be hanging next to the all-white on in the Aboriginal ghetto (Australian Aboriginal art, far from being merely "ethnic" and "primitive", is the most exciting modern art being made today).

Posted by Fnarf on December 1, 2008 at 12:51 PM