{"id":521,"date":"2006-03-21T06:16:20","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T06:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2008-10-31T06:19:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T06:19:05","slug":"mika-rottenberg-at-nicole-klagsbrun-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/21\/mika-rottenberg-at-nicole-klagsbrun-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mika Rottenberg at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

For ‘Time Out New York’ magazine
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Mika Rottenberg, Installation View of 'Dough', 2006, Courtesy of Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nMika Rottenberg\u2019s unsettling videos – eccentric characters manning absurdist assembly lines – have already earned the artist fans, thanks to standout pieces in group shows over the past year. For her first solo show in New York (one large-scale video installation and a selection of drawings), the young artist ups the ante on her signature format, drawing an unnerving analogy between dough and the human body. <\/p>\n

The video is set in a claustrophobically small, distinctly low-tech dough-packaging factory, where decorative touches – bunches of flowers, piles of towels, spray bottles – also suggest a beauty salon. As it is massaged by women in tidy uniforms, the dough clearly stands in for flesh. But far from evoking the pampered form of a spa client, the dough assumes the shape of the workers\u00b9 bodies: An obese woman at the head of the line kneads globs of the stuff, as voluminous as her own flesh, into a skinny rope that she then passes into the elongated hands of a tall, thin woman.<\/p>\n

Rottenberg renders grotesque both dough and flesh, baking and beautification. But fantastical moments lighten the pervasive sense of disgust. In one scenario, a woman sniffs flowers to which she is allergic, and her falling tears keep the rising mixture moist. But it is the abject subject matter of the artist\u2019s drawings – which echo the video\u2019s references to beauty parlor workstations, but also feature projectile vomiting, vats of yellow liquid and swarms of disembodied, snapping jaws – that laces this auspicious and entertaining solo debut with menace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For ‘Time Out New York’ magazine Mika Rottenberg\u2019s unsettling videos – eccentric characters manning absurdist assembly lines – have already earned the artist fans, thanks to standout pieces in group shows over the past year. For her first solo show in New York (one large-scale video installation and a selection of drawings), the young artist … <\/p>\n

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