new gysin book


- bill 9-12-2010 2:23 pm

The NewMu show is pretty good. The paintings, with a couple of exceptions, are fairly tight (I've seen way worse gestural abstraction--all of these have some kind of organizing principle), there is hardly a bad work on paper in the show, and the film and audio stuff is excellent. I don't think the show is trying to make the case that he's a major figure (or, uh, "role model") but it cements his importance as an auteur who was pretty darned consistent across all the media he worked in.
- tom moody 9-13-2010 5:45 pm [add a comment]


I saw the Gysin New Museum show too and loved it. As Tom mentions, there is a lot more to see than just the paintings including tons of really interesting notebooks (with lots of early draft Third Mind stuff), a small room with a working Dream Machine (and cushions all around it - they really encourage people to try it out) and the Burrough's movie Towers Open Fire on loop (totally worth sitting through.)
- jim 10-04-2010 2:56 pm [add a comment]





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