Wardell Milan "Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness"
Taxter & Spengemann
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Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness is intricate, aggressive and sexually thrilling in its attempt to deflate the “Idyllic,” a concept Milan defines as the pristine landscape, the perfect romance, flawless beauty, great power and wealth. The artist’s critical eye breaks down, builds up, rearranges, shreds, and pieces these “truths” back together with, perhaps, a better understanding of the value placed in these constructed ideas.
The thirty plus works on view, ranging in size from 8 x10" to 56 x79” at once contain hints and overt pop references ripped from the pages of fashion, porn, home & garden, and travel literature. His imagery: flowers, men pleasuring each-other, landscapes, and supermodels, smoothly transitions from the sexually explicit to the demure. Milan’s deft manipulation of bold color, stroke, and his signature collage technique is evident throughout the photography, charcoal drawings, paper collages, and paintings of oil, watercolor and crayon, on view here.
[Image: Wardell Milan "Fucking & Landscapes" (2009) Mixed media]
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Schedule
from December 12, 2009 to February 06, 2010
Opening Reception on 2009-12-12 from 18:00 to 20:00