“The Work of Art in the Age of Ecological Recycling.”

Benjamin's Aura Turns Green

Review

[Felix] Gonzales-Torres's ‘Stacks’ or ‘Corner Pieces’ show up a whole network of hidden intimacy and feelings, pulses and fantasies. Similarly, Fareed Armaly beats Dan Graham at his own game of good intentions ...

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“Fareed Armaly constructs a kind of visual scaffolding wherein signs of the times and artistic references are blended. It is a triumph of the ‘timid energies’ so dear to Duchamp. Images, as they stand now, exist and are manipulated by current artists from Michael Asher to Fareed Armaly, taking in [Felix] Gonzales-Torres and Haha along the way, and ending up apparently deserted by the violent energy of style and signature.

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