Bik Van Der Pol
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Catching Some Air, 2000–2005, was a good way to get a whiff of art history, both old and new. Bik Van der PolLisbeth Bik and Jos Van der Polcall their installation “an informal archive for referential material.” The duo took 143 imagesmostly of artworks and artists, plus some textsfrom art-history books, journals, and magazines, including this one. There is Lynda Benglis’s infamous Artforum ad from 1974, her nude selfportrait with dildo; David Hammons selling snowballs in the street; Piero Manzoni’s Socle du Monde (Base of the World), 1961; and an Angela Bulloch text