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Victor Nine
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Looking Back with Victor Nine
by Victor Nine
Posted
1/4/10
The ArtSlant Team asked arts commentator, Victor Nine, to give a wrap of some of the optimal and sub-optimal art moments from 2009. Take it away Victor...
(Image: Morgan Fisher, (), 2003, Film 16 mm, 21’, muet, couleur et noir et blanc, ed. 2/10 + 1EA, collection Frac Île-de-France)
'Loaded with typical French styling and heavy on the Hitchcock. Natalie Hegert rings in 2009 with her review of Notorious.' --Victor Nine (read more)
Exhibition: Group Show, Notorious, Le Plateau/FRAC Ile de France (De... [more]
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Bryant and Luckring at SolwayJones
by Victor Nine
Elizabeth Bryant, Eve Luckring at Solway Jones
March 8th, 2008 - April 19th, 2008
Posted
3/18/08
Strange, quirky, almost ridiculous, the new photographs of Elizabeth Bryant are at once complex and simplistic, choreographed and crude. Using the Japanese art of ikebana flower arrangement as a jumping off point, Bryant's carefully crafted scenarios present a rabbit-hole reality that both enchants and disorients the viewer.
Ikebana flower arrangement began as a ritual offering to the spirits of the dead. Over centuries, this ritual crystallized into a formal and rigorous art form that conti... [more]
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World of Cake
by Victor Nine
Kim Dingle at Kim Light / LightBox
October 26th, 2007 - December 8th, 2007
Posted
11/28/07
“You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” Whenever I hear that proverb, I bristle. It’s so scanty. And what exactly are we talking about? Having vs Enjoying? Hoarding vs Consuming? Arithmetic (1-1 = 0??)
Did you ever buy a cake and then not eat it? What’s the point of that!
Me, personally, I want to try lots of cakes – a world of cakes - eat the cake, have the cake, bake the cake, frost the cake. Cake walk. Leave it out in the rain even.
Certainly Kim Dingle has been... [more]
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Have a Slice
by Victor Nine
Chris Ofili at David Zwirner- 533 W. 19th
September 20th, 2007 - November 3rd, 2007
Posted
9/24/07
Ofili never disappoints. An explosion of life, death, salvation and seduction awaits the eye. [more]
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whimsey & whatnot
by Victor Nine
Jessica Stockholder at 1301PE Gallery
September 8th, 2007 - October 20th, 2007
Posted
9/17/07
this show is art at its best - surprising, intriguing and fresh. See it. [more]
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Big Crowd
by Victor Nine
Bas Louter at fette's gallery
March 2nd, 2007 - April 7th, 2007
Posted
3/21/07
The faces loom so large, staring at me, at each other, at themselves. It's a big crowd.
There is a grainy quality to the paper that reminds me of those portable projection screens my parents used for slideshows. The words, “film noir,” keep repeating in my mind as I wonder whether it is the lighting, the size, or the black and white drama of these portraits that trick me into thinking I am watching a movie.
Thick layers of blackest charcoal take on sculptural qualities. In other a... [more]
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