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During the opening for Superheated Reservoirs: Geysers and Fingertraps, the painting Geyser #22 was accidentally knocked from the wall. The result was a small, uncannily ideal crack in the glass. The object can now read as if the painted geyser – the force within the image itself – ignited the rupture.
This incident put me in mind of Marcel Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, whose glass famously broke. Unlike Duchamp, I won’t have to dedicate two months to reconstituting the shards. Like Duchamp, though, the imposition of an outside, random occurrence has delivered the work to conclusive resolution. Now - it is complete.
Superheated Reservoirs: Geysers and Fingertraps an exhibition of works by Mark Roth and Aaron Cardella continues at The Phatory through March 27, Saturdays and Sundays 1-8:00.
Posted by mark at March 7, 2011 12:34 AM