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dominique blain s first solo exhibition december 26 2020 webmaster 0 comments this show is dominique blain s first solo exhibition in the u k it opens up almost literally in a particularly threatening way where at the entrance to a long narrow gallery is positioned her 1991 piece probe whose acerbic combination of deadly threat from shotgun and rifle muzzles and intensive surveillance from binoculars spyglasses and camera lenses leaves the viewer with a distinctly unpleasant taste in the mouth this piece is indicative of the stance that blain s installations assume a critique of the western european urge towards colonialism and imperialism looking at the reverse side of this installation the viewer becomes the aggressor looking down the rifle barrels at an imaginary quarry more poignant still is the opposition of the two parts of details 1992 on walls either side of the narrowest part of the gallery on the right is details 1 which ostensibly shows eight innocuous looking portraits of african and oriental workers timeless photographs whose poor quality is symptomatic of the snapshot however when the viewer examines the corresponding photographs in details 2 opposite he or she is confronted by the uncanny for here we see that the portraits in details 1 are in fact details of these photographs showing those workers performing demeaning tasks at the behest of their white colonial masters bearing them in litters or pulling them in rickshaws or simply in groups carrying their masters on their shoulders no longer innocuous they could be exhibits of evidence in the case against colonial oppression these images serve as sharp reminders of the arrogance which accompanied colonialism and the contemporary feel of these photographs is a warning that these are tendencies which we could topple back into at any time historicity dictates that at the time of such colonial expansion in the nineteenth century the kneejerk reaction that blain s sombre satire represents would have been unthinkable patriotic fervour would have destroyed it at birth so it is very sobering to reflect retrospectively on the evils that were perpetrated in order to get where we are now it is to be hoped that our emotional response to these works will prove prescriptive for our future actions blain is a master of the optical pejorative no comment is needed to qualify these damning visual statements whose conscience stinging lash makes for uncomfortable viewing the viewer searching for redemption here is out of luck no palliative is on hand to ease a guiltridden mind blain puts the boot in no uncertain terms ninety pairs of boots suspended from the ceiling make their assertive statement in her best known installation missa 1993 which in its normal format is reminiscent of a phalanx of spectral soldiers marking time awaiting orders subordinate to both hierarchy and time this piece is usually shown in a square formation here is elongated front to rear an army on the march its aggression on the loose ready to strike if when and where required each pair of boots has its right foot raised a moment frozen in its block of silence the sound of an army on the march is spine chilling the silence of this one is eerie imperialism racism sexism fascism all come under the scrutiny of blain s analyses chewed over then spat out as targets for her fiercely satirical works she gives no quarter she juxtaposes the incongruous in her untitled 1987 where a fresh cigar an unspent bullet and an extended lipstick are offered up not only as visual similes but as symbols of greed power and sex three components of the capitalist engine that propels the imperialist machine that drives western progress that galvanizes blain into action japan apologize 1993 is fortuitously topical as in the same week as this show opened the japanese prime minister mr hashimoto made a formal apology to britain for the atrocities perpetrated upon british prisoners of war in world war ii this piece is a masterpiece of paradox showing as it does through the presentation of a traditional kimono the cultured civilized face of japan which even the greatest leap of faith cannot reconcile with the brutality meted out by her soldiers during the second world war the crux of this image however is that the kimono being empty is making a hollow gesture its open skirts revealing nothing but a void the doubts that beset the viewer here reflect those expressed by british ex p o w s this week the evidence supplied by the cross cultural references in untitled 1987 leave us standing accused the narratives which spring out of the image of two u s offduty servicemen flanking a seminaked tribeswomen outside her hut are all tainted by the tawdry this woman the subject of exploitation whatever its degree is as much a trophy as the zebra skin covered stool which stands on the gallery floor in front of her image on the wall the opposition here of degenerate sophistication and primitive naivete offers a cameo which is a distillation of colonial abuse avoiding the overt pornography of violence which is present only by implication blain s contextualization of otherwise prosaic images and objects to produce the requisite effect i e razor sharp critique is both deft and incisive it is always chastening to see one s culture depicted as the other and by confusing and cross referencing our accepted stereotypes of the domestic and the military by awakening us to the ubiquity of the trappings of state power and control in the contemporary world to which we have become oblivious she rings the alarm bells shaking us out of lethargy and into the realization that yes perhaps it has got something to do with us the garden project december 25 2020 webmaster 0 comments if the garden project attempts to shatter illusions with ersatz idealism marshall s most recent work four paintings collectively titled souvenirs 1997 8 pushes for another realignment to place cultural figures of the civil rights era into the pantheons of high art or at the very least give inclusive homage to the known and anonymous who have shaped the artist s history and america s over the past decades it is a grand gesture that only slightly veils marshall s larger critique of questioning how history designates a few to stardom and muffles recognition of many others and he has gone to his most allegorical extreme to do this the four paintings are a jumble of souvenir kitsch and gumball cheapness with overriding references to the early renaissance fra angelico s linear space and biblical straight men in particular in souvenir i 1997 a living room stands in for the church and archangel gabriel a black figure with glitter dust wings delivers his message in the form of a boutique of flowers dominating the right side of the painting is a velvet souvenir banner with the halo heads of john f kennedy robert kennedy and martin luther king registering as a proxy for the holy trinity marshall presents the lesser known players of the civil rights era at the top of the canvas floating in a bed of silvery clouds like putti malcolm x is there but most are not as familiar like the four girls killed during the 1963 birmingham church bombing like the garden project souvenirs has an edge things are not quite as they seem he has leveled out the playing field and determined that nothing is sacrosanct art history butts up with razzle dazzle the divine with suburbia white with african american history culture moves into the realm of politics and the embracing question is who has the authority or taste property justice to determine the heroes popular culture does as marshall suggests by showing the immorality of the official triad as subjects that have saturated every tier of the market including the kitsch in the accepted reverence for the kennedys and king american mythmakers for both african americans and whites the possibility of others who were no less heroic vanishes in their wake even when the paintings are unwrapped from its symbolic packaging there is still much more left these are tamer works stylistically more serene and the drama more muted to something closer to the frictionless sheen of a magazine spread marshall s usual brushstroke pastiche and layers of assemblage are near to absent in souvenirs ii iii and iv 1997 he has removed colour altogether and gone monochromatic like a pre technicolor television screen held stagnant the living rooms of no particular period in anywhere america seem radiant in their near entropy as in souvenir i the names of the famous mingle with the arcane and float down the canvases like nightclub playbills soul singer and songwriter otis redding playwright lorraine hansberry singer ida cox folklorist zora neale hurston and hollywood starlet dorothy dandridge among them it is chancy work to the extreme since marshall courts the possibility of turning his symbolic saturation into the decorative and then hams it up more with a glitter dust curtain fringe running along the bottom like a carnival backdrop but he escapes the pictorial by the peering eyes of his angels dressed in a mourning suit one assumes the foreground figure in souvenir i is bent at the waist and looking out over his shoulder at us the whites of his eyes reveal such a doleful gaze that the entire painting comes together at that very point an otherwise static environment nears a sense of movement and liveliness that is entirely human and compassionate marshall is only being half glib by not making it difficult to miss that the archangel is in part a self portrait the coy messenger invited into the white dominated hierarchy of contemporary art has brought with him some uninvited guests marshall s exaggeration december 25 2020 webmaster 0 comments marshall s exaggeration is a process of tipping the scales in the opposite direction erasing the preconception that the oppression that seems inherent in the projects has undermined the reality of the life these places contain a kind of human resilience that is continually present despite the conditions it takes marshall s experience of knowing these locations explicitly and his mastery of balancing the ironic and comic that keeps his works from dipping into the realm of story book corniness the self referential nods are just too acute to be mistaken as anything other than sharp and sardonic jolts meant to debase stereotypes within marshall s set ups of urban idealism are his matte black figures placed almost always front and centre they are the most striking aspect of his work both visually and metaphorically and cannot be pinned down to any one interpretation as painterly devices their solidity and darkness makes them indeterminable as subjects or objects that are neither deep nor shallow a kind of static space that sets off the action and intimacy of everything else happening around them what is confrontational about them in the similar gracious manner in which schjeldahl talked of golub s work is their rhetorical function of producing an effect but without eliciting any one response they are archetypes in that regard a reversal of ralph ellison s metaphoric invisible man and they carry the load of representing every vision of african american imaginable from the tom show blackface minstrel to the sports idol criminal gangsta rapper celebrity and fetish object even the contemporary interracial tensions between african americans that are often the subject of spike lee films become infused the figures embody not only historical and white perceived stereotypes but also tap at the fear many african americans have of sambo like images being out there and in the public domain marshall of course has encountered from viewers every conceivable interpretation possible and the responses cannot be grouped he takes racial stereotyping as a given then flirts with it gambling that his viewers will be able to interpret the fictional truth of his figures matte black uniformity similar to his use of idealized settings the extreme blackness is a way of revealing human complexities by manipulating stereotypes that are meant to conceal kerry james marshall s inclusion december 25 2020 webmaster 0 comments if chicago painter kerry james marshall s inclusion in documenta x as one of only two painters the other being lari pittman and his widely noted exclusion from the whitney s black male representations of masculinity in contemporary american art exhibition 1994 and 1995 biennial indicate anything it is that marshall s paintings are not easily placed within a determined curatorial framework there are reasons for this marshall s paintings are monumental figurative and have a flattened staged presence that brings the paintings right up close his sense for composition and balance of knowing what to leave in and what to take out is one of his strongest skills which he has developed after years of working on small collage works throughout the 1970s he has allowed what he learned from his teacher and friend social realist...