Piero Manzoni. Dana Schutz. Yue Minjun

Three totally different, yet not random names. The reason they reviewed together is a retrospective of art of Piero Manzoni, amazingly young, and suddenly deeply intellectual, at Gagosian. 2009 was extremely simple year, we see this show as a considerably best happening to occur in New York. Dana Schutz presence was noticeable during a several years, her faux-naive abstract-surrealist paintings obviously is a statement kind; Yue Minjun's art, probably, could be, at some extent, compared to the mark of the new Epoch. However, we see significant new wave of art from China that made art world look totally different during the few years. Piero Manzoni lived short but vibrant life amazingly reflected in his art. His proto-conceptualist oeuvre absorbed more than a number of artists expressed in the decades producing art. Despite the fact, that appreciation for enfant-terrible intelligent kind of art often is totally absent from the popular public, his work possess an extremely firm materialist beauty and have a complex intellectual message. The show was brilliantly orchestrated and, if you seek for the aesthetics which is raw, intellectually brilliant, yet minimally-simple, Manzoni's show was exactly that. Just a small remark; how difficult to find something as good as this Manzoni's exhibition; without any sort of a thing that presented maximalism or blindly rooted ambition, just equilibrium of idea and form; that apparently played together in the fashion of Beethoven's sonata and let you think subconsciously about surreal worlds reminiscent to art of Jean Arp. When i think about Dana Schutz, i probably start to remember nights spent at different places, sometime joyful, sometime sleepless because of a climate changes or mosquitoes around. Sometime, experiences could be superb. What we like is desires; what we hate is what we need, but we hate impossibility to attain it. Sometime, her compositions not-all-the same good, as one expects. The treatment of surreal subjects alongside with great sense for color, and striking composition, produces quite remarkable effect; i certainly admit i like it. The questioning of whatever something what seemed attractive during the period of 6 years; if same could remain interesting for ten to fifty years ahead. Yue Minjun. The few years was amazing years for China. China got US in 2 trillion dollar trade deficit; China achieved something new and extremely powerful in art, finally, the ability to produce objectively new and truly own, cynical-social realism which is made in China and seem to belong to its time. One can't know what awaits Chinese power in the next thousand years, same no one knows future of the World, we may just guess what's going to be next... Yue Minjun's "Execution", is a mark for a new age. In execution we see dualist pictorial opposition, perhaps it is the picture of the conflict of the old and new. At some extent, the new power triumphant over old, and we see kind of celebration for the revolt, a new life and new art.

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