PAUL THEK Diver

by Valery Oisteanu
in brooklynrail
foto Peter Hujar

Paul Thek was an avant-god practicing his own religion—complete with apostles (the Artist’s Co-op) and prophecies; much of his work was comprised of self-deprecating, grotesque icons crackling with a spiritual aura, funny, disturbing, and at times bizarre. A true pioneer of installation art, he dodged many of the isms that defined his era (1933–1988) and came up with his own style.

Dumitru Gorzo la Galeria Slag din New York

Dumitru Gorzo In the Corner of My Eye
Live flowers decorate the ceiling and floors of this new gallery, just as they would at a real Romanian wedding—but the party guests are on the walls: the subjects of the provocative portraits of the Romanian painter known as Gorzo. Who? He is a talented young man in his thirties, enmeshed in controversy in Europe and, now, the United States, wherever politics, sex and aesthetics meet.
de Valery Oisteanu in The Brooklyn Rail
foto Courtesy of SLAG Gallery via The Brooklyn Rail
SLAG Gallery June 12 – July 19, 2008
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