{"id":842,"date":"2010-01-01T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2011-07-31T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T17:33:25","slug":"janine-antoni-up-against-at-luhring-augustine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/01\/janine-antoni-up-against-at-luhring-augustine\/","title":{"rendered":"Janine Antoni, “Up Against” at Luhring Augustine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Janine Antoni, "One Another," 2008. Photograph courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tied together only by an amazingly adaptable title, Janine Antoni<\/a>\u2019s new photography,\u00a0sculpture and installation leap from theme to theme \u2014 new motherhood, Hurricane Katrina, a cheeky re-imagining of the female anatomy \u2014 in an ad hoc exploration of intimacy and\/ or adversity. Though some of her best-known artwork has delved into her relationship with her mother, Antoni is frustratingly ambivalent about her own connection with her young daughter. Ironically, it\u2019s when Antoni herself seems to be acting juvenile, in a piece that has her urinating from the top of the Chrysler Building, that her work is most resonant.<\/p>\n

At the gallery entrance, a photo of Antoni\u2019s toddler poking a spoon at her mother\u2019s exposed navel portrays the artist as authority figure, so it\u2019s startling to encounter an image of her using a bronze, shoehorn-shaped gargoyle as a substitute penis to direct a stream of urine in a hilarious piss take of the adolescent male urge to mark territory. Less daring than Margaret Bourke-White\u2019s famous perch atop the Chrysler\u2019s eagles, more restrained than Lynda Benglis\u2019s raunchy posturing, Antoni\u2019s absurd gesture is nevertheless empowering, removing one more obstacle between the sexes.<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s final two pieces are less original. A damaged wrecking ball coupled with\u00a0a close-up projection of an eyeball blinking to resounding booms is a one-dimensional parable of destruction in the blink of an eye and too closely tied to the context of its debut at \u201cProspect 1\u201d in New Orleans. In a final photo collage, Antoni hovers, spider-like, from a rope web wearing a doll house as skirt, her flesh filling rooms and pressing against tiny furniture in a beautifully succinct illustration of motherly overbearing. But it\u2019s not clear what Antoni\u2019s getting at with the spider reference (and hard not to compare with Louise Bourgeois\u2019s powerful Maman<\/em>), while the martyr-like pose she strikes doesn\u2019t say anything new about mothers\u2019 sacrifice. We\u2019re extended a tantalizing invitation into the intimacy of her personal experience but come away unenlightened.<\/p>\n

Originally published in Flash Art International, no 267, November – December 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tied together only by an amazingly adaptable title, Janine Antoni\u2019s new photography,\u00a0sculpture and installation leap from theme to theme \u2014 new motherhood, Hurricane Katrina, a cheeky re-imagining of the female anatomy \u2014 in an ad hoc exploration of intimacy and\/ or adversity. Though some of her best-known artwork has delved into her relationship with her … <\/p>\n

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