Maya Bloch, Untitled, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 110cm
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Alexander Tinei, Kundalini pyramid, 2010. 200 x 150 cm. Oil on canvas
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Portrait of Pope Innocent X, by Diego Velázquez (1650)
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Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, By Francis Bacon (1953)
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GEORGIA RECOMMENDS JAMES FRANCO
James Franco at the Clock Tower
You can’t artfully pretend to not know who James Franco is. And, as his upcoming exhibition of film, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance at the historic Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan dictates, you also can’t pretend that Franco hasn’t become a creator whose ability to inhabit seemingly any cultural and vocational carapace—from scholar to soap star—informs an artistic practice wholly unlike any other.
But who, really, is the artist called James Franco, and what kind of artwork does he make? His first solo exhibit, titled The Dangerous Book Four Boys, is a multi-tiered discursion on the constructed essences and affectations of masculinity. Via a series of layered films, structures, and assemblages, Franco has constructed a psychological funhouse mirror in which to view these identity fragments.
Read the rest of the review at VMAN. It’s so hot.
