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  • Johan Muyle

    Galerie Ascan Crone

    This exhibition of Johan Muyle’s rotating, blinking, and tinkling works would have fascinated and entertained children. Between the individual works stuffed animals tumbled about, giving the entire scene a macabre atmosphere. A monkey surrounded by ivy extended his arm to beg; two Pomeranians played with each other in a baby carriage. Each work seemed to transport the viewer back to a time of individual mythologies and surrealistic games. A strange combination of devotional objects, sawed-up furniture, and tin cans created this time warp, which, with its tendency toward private mysticism, harkened

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