Paula Burleigh
MARCEL DZAMA Une Danse Des Bouffons (or A Jester’s Dance)
By Paula BurleighUne 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.
SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE
A rough guide to Hell
By Paula Burleigh
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.
SABINE HORNIG Transparent Things
By Paula BurleighSabine Hornig’s solo exhibition at Tonya Bonakdar is called Transparent Things, which describes both the objects she photographs and their resulting sculptures.
ROSEMARIE TROCKEL A Cosmos
By Paula BurleighWith 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.
In Conversation
Painting Now and Eternally
SUZANNE HUDSON with 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: 1989–Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
