{"id":748,"date":"2009-06-09T20:52:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T01:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2009-06-09T20:52:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T01:52:44","slug":"lara-schnitger-at-anton-kern-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/09\/lara-schnitger-at-anton-kern-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lara Schnitger at Anton Kern Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lara<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s understandable that Lara Schnitger<\/a> would want to move on after a decade of making her signature anthropomorphic bundles of wood and fabric. Too bad the three new sculptures in her latest solo show outshine the main offering, a series of lackluster fabric-on-canvas \u201cpaintings.\u201d Wittily evoking recognizable character types like a glitzy matron or glamorous belle of the ball, the sculptures are suggestive and humorous while the paintings rely too heavily on contrasting patterns and colors.<\/p>\n

Not that Schnitger\u2019s use of materials is unappealing, as attested to by one arresting portrait of a mother with a glowing mass of orange hair and a nude body rendered in crags of bleached black fabric. Elsewhere, a stately Morticia Addams type flashes a leg from beneath a black, lace-stenciled dress while almost incidentally holding a tiny baby. Neither piece packs the punch of Schnitger\u2019s earlier photocollages of babies with porn actresses, nor makes substantial comment on sexuality and motherhood.<\/p>\n

Gratuitously erotic images\u2014a bottom in the air, an anorexic onanist\u2014and darkly symbolic pairings of women with cats or a crow have purely aesthetic purpose, though a more ambitious, bestial remake of Bronzino\u2019s racy ‘An Allegory with Venus and Cupid’ <\/a>avoids the anonymity of the other paintings\u2019 mask-faced characters. <\/p>\n

By contrast, Schnitger\u2019s wry sculptural figures are the life of the party: A pointy armature on a pedestal becomes a big-busted grande dame in a gaudy getup, a skinny character in lingerie seems to trip over her own kinky outfit, and a stork-legged starlet struts in stilettos and a magnificently gaudy ball gown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s understandable that Lara Schnitger would want to move on after a decade of making her signature anthropomorphic bundles of wood and fabric. Too bad the three new sculptures in her latest solo show outshine the main offering, a series of lackluster fabric-on-canvas \u201cpaintings.\u201d Wittily evoking recognizable character types like a glitzy matron or glamorous … <\/p>\n

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