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Mousse 73: Out Now
Mousse 73: Out Now. Cici Wu by Billy Tang; Anne Libby by Philipp Hindahl; Rodney McMillian by Jennifer Piejko; Hadi Fallahpisheh by Kristian Vistrup Madsen; ektor garcia by Jeppe Ugelvig; Mimosa Echard by Charles Aubin
CONVERSATIONS
Sick and Tired of All That Purity: A Roundtable on Contemporary Figuration
Is figuration in contemporary art rising from the ashes once again? Even if former edicts on media’s or language’s death and resurrection have proven flawed due to art’s endemic ebbs and flows, recent exhibitions, market data, and literature show an arc of mounting interest in representational work consolidating after the end of Zombie Formalism in the mid-2010s. The following roundtable, gathering figures varyingly tangled in this phenomenon—gallerist Rózsa Farkas, curators Elise Lammer and Lydia Yee, and artists Megan Rooney and Katharina Wulff—aims to outline its features and underlying forces.
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Satyr Plays: Lewis Hammond
Are we really living in an Age of Darkness, as Lewis Hammond’s apocalyptically charged paintings suggest? The wider world remains locked out in his works; the cosmos depicted is reduced to narrow, safe retreats where bodies surrender to one another and indulge in tender, sometimes ambivalently violent intimacy.
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Cosmopolitan Other: Salman Toor
With his lush, figurative scenes of gaggles of gay men hanging out in watering holes, outside brownstones, and on street corners with a drink in every hand, Salman Toor seems to channel romantic notions of urban living—of being alone in a crowd, one of many.
