reviews

  • Adrian Paci

    Kaufmann Repetto

    Adrian Paci’s exhibition “The People Are Missing” was orchestrated on two different registers: Immersive installations were constructed alongside a selection of photographs and videos of found materials. Four works presented a narrative that unfolded in four stages, one after another, in the gallery’s four rooms. One space had been transformed into a shower (Untitled, 2017). Water fell violently onto the floor and was immediately sucked into a drain hole. An old gas heater emitted a sinister noise. If a domestic bathroom is a private and reassuring place for tending to one’s body, this environment,

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  • Mary Bauermeister, Ultramarine Tubes, 1969–70, aluminum, glass, Plexiglas, optical lenses, shaped and painted wood, stones, ink, paint, 19 3/4 × 10 1/4 × 7".

    Mary Bauermeister, Ultramarine Tubes, 1969–70, aluminum, glass, Plexiglas, optical lenses, shaped and painted wood, stones, ink, paint, 19 3/4 × 10 1/4 × 7".

    Mary Bauermeister

    Studio Gariboldi

    This exhibition presented a selection of work from the 1960s and 1970s by Mary Bauermeister, one of the original proponents of a visual language intended to connect the grand European pictorial tradition with the material experimentation typical of postwar American art. Born in Frankfurt in 1934, the artist began working in Cologne in 1960 and moved to New York in 1962, along with the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, to whom she was married for five years, beginning in 1967. She would not return to Europe until the early ’70s. During her time in America, Bauermeister created her “lens boxes,” a

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