Tara Donovan is a little bit like Brian Jungen, in that she takes common everyday objects and puts her alchemical touch on to them, and poof! out comes a seductive visual experience.
What intrigues me about both Donovan and Jungen, is that they are essentially making readymades: twisted and altered readymades. All is reinvented but nothing is really "invented". It's interesting to me because it inverts Duchamp's wish to infuse art with a degree of cerebrality - which at the time of The Fountain in 1917 was lacking - because of the high visual nature within the reigning aesthetic at the time: cubism. Donovan, more so than Jungen, uses visuals to outwit intellectualisms. I can't say that's a bad thing either.
Photos : Ace Gallery
1 comment:
hey tonik,
i had the lucky opportunity to check out jungen's show in vancouver. awesome to see it all in one show. now i need a pair of nikes.
say hi when you can.
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