Paula Burleigh

Suzanne Hudson is an art historian and critic whose writing has appeared in October, Flash Art, Parkett, and Artforum, where she is a regular contributor. She is the author of Robert Ryman: Used Paint (MIT Press, 2009; 2011) and the co-editor of Contemporary Art: 1989Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
Painting Now and Eternally SUZANNE HUDSON with Paula Burleigh
Une Danse des Bouffons (or A Jester’s Dance), a roughly 35-minute-long silent film by Canadian-born artist Marcel Dzama, is an absurdist drama featuring one woman’s attempt to rescue her lover, the artist Marcel Duchamp, who is being held captive and tortured while made to recite chess moves.
Marcel Dzama, Installation view from the 2014 solo show Marcel Dzama: Une Danse des Bouffons (or A Jester's Dance) at David Zwirner, NY. Commissioned by Toronto International Film Festival, 2013. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London.
Black lettering on P!’s deep red awning reads: “Lasciate ogne stranezza voi ch’intrate”(Abandon all strangeness, you who enter here), a loose adaptation of the infamous inscription over the Gate of Hell in Dante’s Inferno.
Société Réaliste, "Media Police," 2013. Archival inkjet typographical chart mounted on dibond. Photo by Naho Kubota.
Sabine Hornig’s solo exhibition at Tonya Bonakdar is called Transparent Things, which describes both the objects she photographs and their resulting sculptures.
Sabine Hornig, “Großes Eckfenster / Large Corner Window,” 2012. Aluminum, wood, sublimation print on polyester, and concrete. Overall installed dimensions: 71 3/4 x 122 1/2 x 135”. Photo: Jean Vong. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
With the boundaries between artist and curator ever porous, it’s no surprise that the locus of meaning in Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos is as much in the exhibition’s organization as in the works.
Rosemarie Trockel, "Replace Me," 2011. Digital Print. Image courtesy of the New Museum.

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