{"id":951,"date":"2011-04-07T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=951"},"modified":"2011-08-03T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T18:03:31","slug":"angel-otero-memento-at-lehmann-maupin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/07\/angel-otero-memento-at-lehmann-maupin\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Otero, “Memento” at Lehmann Maupin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Angel Otero, 'There's nothing so I wonder," 2011. Photograph courtesy of Lehmann Maupin, New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Angel Otero<\/a>\u2019s unconventional process\u2014fashioning assemblages or lively paintings using \u201cskins\u201d of oil paint applied to glass before being peeled off\u2014is the draw in his New York solo debut. An awkward anthropomorphic object perched on a chintzy armchair, messy Expressionist interiors in garish colors and one uninspired composition with text demonstrate the young artist\u2019s competing sensibilities. Far better are Otero\u2019s large-scale abstractions\u2014action paintings in which paint itself seems to have agency, shooting off the edge of the canvas, bunching dramatically or seductively veiling its support.<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s smallest and punchiest piece\u2014a black number whose surface is concertinaed like a crushed soda can\u2014has an affinity with Piero Manzoni\u2019s pleated white canvas, but in place of purity there is an excess of paint, piled up in waves as if to hide some (perhaps failed?) experiment beneath. Likewise, a blocky form wrapped in streaks of yellow and black traffics in concealment, channeling Christo\u2019s early wrapped objects\u2014minus, unfortunately, the mystery.<\/p>\n

The play between a vibrantly colored surface and an occasionally glimpsed support that is waxy and dead is more alive than, say, Steven Parrino\u2019s twisted and pulled canvases, and aligns Otero with Fabian Marcaccio\u2019s use of paint as a sculpting material. Recurrent blurring also recalls Gerhard Richter\u2019s scraped abstract canvases, but unlike Richter, Otero\u2019s intent is to build, not cancel out. His undulating skins re-create the drama of a hastily drawn curtain, awaking the senses and offering a celebration of paint\u2019s possibilities.<\/p>\n

Originally published in Time Out New York, issue 807, March 31 – April 6, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angel Otero\u2019s unconventional process\u2014fashioning assemblages or lively paintings using \u201cskins\u201d of oil paint applied to glass before being peeled off\u2014is the draw in his New York solo debut. An awkward anthropomorphic object perched on a chintzy armchair, messy Expressionist interiors in garish colors and one uninspired composition with text demonstrate the young artist\u2019s competing sensibilities. … <\/p>\n

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