An elegant pencil drawing by Romanian artist Ciprian Muresan shows a tall fellow with an unusually long torso. His face is scrunched, as if exhaling in sorrow. Way down at the drawing’s bottom, his hands are carefully slicing an onion.
An art of manufactured tears is the curious undercurrent of the group show “The Punishment of Lust and Luxury,” which presents seven drawings and three videos (one unavailable for viewing when I visited) at Mihai Nicodim Gallery. Some works are witty, like Adrian Ghenie’s bleary pencil rendering of a smeared face. “Pie Fight Study” pays tribute to a futile yet heartfelt retort ( .. )
de Christopher Knight in Los Angeles Times
Image: Ciprian Muresan's "I'm Too Sad to Tell You" (after Bass Jan Ader) (2009), pencil on paper. Credit: Mihai Nicodim Gallery via Los Angeles Times
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