Saturday, July 05, 2003  


:: Posted by max @ 7/05/2003 12:54:00 AM
:::Old Heroes fart away in nursing ward



The Whitney Museum of American Art is currently hosting a show titled "American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003". One of the installations is a white room featuring some of ‘mainstream comics’ most honoured totems looking a bit less than shiny new.



Quoting GRACE GLUECK of the NY times, “ Captain America lies on a gurney, attached to an IV. Superman, long in the tooth, stands braced by a walker, its metal legs confining his flowing cape. A wizened Catwoman slumps in an armchair. And an elderly Mr. Fantastic sits glumly at a table, his played-out elastic limbs draped limply over and under it”



A paunchy bedraggled Wonder Woman can also be seen in press shots as well as a sad looking old man HULK (bad reviews on the movie seem to really have had a an effect on the old boy).



The piece titled ‘Nursing Home’ is the work of French artist, Gilles Barbier, and appears as part of the exhibit that includes work from 30 countries by 47 different artists and examines the bigger than life impression ameraican culture leaves on the world, and in some cases, such as the instillation by Gilles Barbier, takes some of the hot air out of our neighbours bravado.



Interesting stuff. Read the Whitney’s press here and an article in the NY times here (Apparently our Canadian agent in the field, artist Mark Lewis, seems to have failed to impress the Times with a film projection that follows porn stars in various stages of dress as they cavort in an idyllic garden designed by a noted Los Angeles landscape architect Jay Griffith)





    
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