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Pure Puryear: Sculptor of the Allusive |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Eric Gibson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,756 Words, 10,510 Characters |
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The Martin Puryear retrospective, which is currently at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C, and travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in July, could not have come at a more propitious moment. Organized by Neal Benezra, formerly of the Art Institute of Chicago and newly installed as the Hirshhorn's chief curator, it presents elegantly crafted objects that are striking presences and that are possessed of broadly allusive meanings, despite being thoroughly abstract.
The show's virtue, besides the fact that it gives us manifold visual pleasures, lies in its affirmative power: It reminds us of the validity of Modernism and its signature invention, abstraction, as well as the viability of individual vision and the forming hand in the making of a...
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...Puryear's sculptures are, they remain in some way scaled to us through the medium of the artist's touch, elements in a three-way dialogue: artist to object; object to viewer; viewer to artist. It's the sort of intellectual depth almost no other artist in the 1980s was able to attain, certainly not Jenny Holzer. Perhaps someone should send this show to Venice, so they can see what they missed.
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