"Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion" Exhibition

Grey Art Gallery

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Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion brings together the work of 15 internationally recognized contemporary artists, whose work explores the confrontation between classic, highly idyllic romanticism and contemporary, pragmatic realism. Damaged Romanticism revolves around a seemingly simple premise—powerful, positive artwork can spring from profound disappointment. It captures the complexity of contemporary reality by giving form to intricate, even contradictory sentiments, placing rebellion, disillusionment, and defiance side by side. Works on view in the exhibition—paintings, sculpture, installations, photographs and videos—explore varied subjects such as nature, the modern landscape, the human body, identity, relationships, and spirituality, presenting artists’ multilayered responses to the world.

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    perke: (2009-02-18 at 23:02)

    Academic for Karen Rosenberg http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/arts/design/13roma.html?_r=1&ref=design Not academic at all for the curator, whom I heard at the gallery talk/ walk through, which Chuck Close was also following too, YAY. And not academic enough as of me? Worth checking out for the bunch of artist perhaps too randomly gathered together.

    matt: (2009-03-02 at 10:03)

    i agree. just didn't get a sense of dialogue between the various works, and the exhibition added up to less than the sum of its parts.

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