Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection, December 5, 2007-November 28, 2008The work of rising Miami artist Hernan Bas indulges in the production of romantic, melancholic, old world imagery that makes reference to Wilde, Huysmans and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period in literature. Reviewing Bas' "pictures of willowy young men filtered through screens of swipey, streaky acrylic and gouache," The New York Times' Holland Cotter once wrote, "To me, his paintings are elements in a larger, continuous conceptual-performance piece about being gay in twenty-first-century America. He understands that 'gay' is a larger and more interesting category than 'artist, ' and one still embattled and historically underexplored. I value whatever he brings to that history." This volume presents 38 works produced over the last decade. |
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Exhibition Statement Mark Coetzee II | 12 |
Essays | 30 |
Hernan Bas Deliberate Decadence Dominic Molon 4553 | 43 |
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20 Huysmans 2001 Water-based oil 28 Tricia Henry Acrylic and gouache Apologies to Hockney Art News 105 Bela Lugosi's Grave Boys Together Clinging conception of misreading Contemporary Art culture Dance Research 17 Daniel Reich Gallery dimensions DVDs duration DVD projections Elisa Turner Essay Hernan Bas Esseintes exhibition Fag Limbo Fiji Mermaid Fredric Snitzer Gallery game on properties gouache on linen Hardy Boys Hardy Boys Meet Hedi Slimane Henry Young Interview With Apologies J. K. Huysmans Judith Butler Low Light Mark Coetzee meanings over readers meet new ends Miami Herald Moore Space Museum of Contemporary Nouveau Sissies Ocean's Symphony Dirge oil on paper oil pastel painting reframing bureaucratic strategies Reframing Societal Texts Robert Baldick Middlesex Rubell Family Collection slash fiction Slash writers Slim Fast Societal Texts 14 Society for Dance Tactics of Reframing term misreading Tricia Henry Young Variable dimensions DVDs Victoria Miro Gallery Whitney Biennial writers and Bas