John Boskovich “Mirrors”
David Lewis Gallery
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David Lewis presents John Boskovich: Mirrors, the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery.
Reflection, mirroring, recognition, deception, delusion, creation. Let’s begin with the myth of Narcissus: A beautiful ephebe becomes entranced by his reflection in the spring, forgets to eat or something? No, he falls into the pool and everything to embrace his beautiful reflection and drowns: not exactly an ameliorative myth of self-fashioning, self-love. It’s a failure from both a gay and straight amorous perspectives (the latter: his girlfriend Echo, so bummed out by his self-obsession, withers to a droning chorus, something like “Voices Carry” by ‘Til Tuesday).
All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
— Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 2
John Boskovich received his MFA from CalArts, during its sadomasochistic critical obsessional efflorescence in the era of skeptical beliefs, Douglas Huebler and John Baldessari. John was TA for Baldessari’s famous Post-Studio Art seminar. The background is ‘60s and ‘70s Conceptual art; video art and performance arts is thick; Andy Warhol never sleeps. Billy Name’s silver tin foil decor for The Factory. The mirrors of two infinity rooms, one by Kusama, another by Samaras. The Nonsites of Robert Smithson. Fassbinder’s “Chinese Roulette” — all those mirrors, one liar facing another’s reflection, fissile and hysterical.
The mirror crack’d from side to side
“The curse has come upon me,” cried
The Lady of Shalott
— Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott
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Schedule
from March 04, 2022 to April 09, 2022
Opening Reception on 2022-03-04 from 18:00 to 20:00