June 24, 2013

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A New Twist on the Crucifixion (Blake Gopnik Jun 24, 2013, Daily Beast)

This truly bizarre object, worthy of the furthest bywaters of Catholic eccentricity, consists of four bronze Christs crucified on a single cross that's been turned in on itself - the only way to accomplish this perverse four-in-one  task, according to Delvoye. 


(Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York)

What matters most about the piece is that it doesn't read as pure and arbitrary surrealism. The object sets itself a goal, of sorts, and then achieves it in an orderly way. Looking at it, you are forever wanting to undistort its four life-size figures and "resurrect" them to a normal state, like the skull in Holbein's "Ambassadors"

Posted by at June 24, 2013 5:06 PM
  

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