Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys “Fine Arts”
MOMA PS1
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Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys show fifteen steel sculptures, eighty-five watercolors, and a few videos.
These artists make tragic, comic, and silent portraits of the human condition. They are drawn to all that society can’t digest or domesticate, and they create a perverse caricature that is populated by amateur actors, faces, dolls, animals, and other speechless objects. Their work is deadpan, in all senses of the word: funny and blank at the same time. It tastes like cardboard.
Standing at nine-feet tall but eight millimeters thick, the sculptures resemble cut-out figures or pixelated bodies. Watercolored faces, traced from anonymous images found online, are pinned to each one. Appearing throughout a series of eight carpeted galleries, the sculptures will be the visitors to an exhibition of watercolors.
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from May 03, 2015 to August 31, 2015