I've got better things to do than slag the Times again, but the New Yorker's capsule review of Steve's show gets more across in one paragraph than the paper of record:
STEVE DI BENEDETTO
For the last few years, DiBenedetto's paintings have been
infected by a swarming, kaleidoscopic pictorrhea: images and
patterns seemed to germinate, collide, and cannibalize each
other almost at random, and it was hard to tell if the artist
was on to something or just losing his grip. Here, his
paintings are suddenly bolder-both more omnivorous and
clearer than before. It takes a while to adjust to
DiBenedetto's run-on syntax, and what you do see almost
defies description (Richard Dadd meets Hundertwasser?
Translucent helicopters meet braided rainbows?), but the
results are utterly distinctive and absorbing. Through May 2.
(Baumgartner, 418 W. 15th St. 633-2276.)
I tried to get something across in a bit for an aborted catalog project. Steve wanted me to get into the iconography, which may be somewhat oblique to some in the art world (certainly the New Yorker has a better grasp than the Times). This would not have been published without some sort of nod to the late Terrance McKenna, whose ideas have been inspirational to both me and Steve, going back to the late 1980s. Anyway, here's the blurb. See the show while you can.
Nice piece Alex. Can we get a photo of that ferris wheel (or some other) painting to put on that page? Again, really nice job.
OK, I inserted a couple of links to the artnet pages, which are not necessarily the best correspondences for the text, but the best I could find on the web. Not sure if more can be done at this point, but I'll check with Steve as to availability of images.
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- alex 4-19-2001 5:06 pm
Nice piece Alex. Can we get a photo of that ferris wheel (or some other) painting to put on that page? Again, really nice job.
- jim 4-19-2001 9:32 pm [add a comment]
OK, I inserted a couple of links to the artnet pages, which are not necessarily the best correspondences for the text, but the best I could find on the web. Not sure if more can be done at this point, but I'll check with Steve as to availability of images.
- alex 4-19-2001 9:54 pm [add a comment]