Louise lawler why pictures now

Quite the opposite; they are themselves beautiful compositions, savvily arranged. Masterpieces lean against white walls. At MoMA, the still life is a vinyl adhesive, blown up and distorted to fit one of several huge walls that jut out in the exhibit space. What unites these images, perhaps, is a deep sense of expensive loneliness. Though there are exceptions, her photographs are, for the most part, unpeopled.

Salon Hodler — depicts two paintings hanging opposite each other on a turquoise wall. The room is empty, charmingly useless. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures. Elsewhere, Lawler appropriates her own images and turns them into small glass paperweights. Do the works that reference warfare and drones bear authentic messages, or is it all a cynical pantomime used to wage some irony with the art industry? Christiane Baumgartner: Wish you were here 29 Oct - 4 Dec Photographs Auction: 10 Nov - 16 Nov, Irish Art Auction: 17 Nov - 23 Nov, Scottish Art Auction: 18 Nov - 23 Nov, Russian Pictures Auction: 30 Nov Tolarno Galleries Viewing Room Online.

Rosemary Laing: poems for recent times 8 Oct - 11 Dec Rita Ackermann. Don Gallery Shanghai. Sign In. Forgot your password? We treat your personal data with care; please find our privacy notice here. Keep me signed in. How does the photograph pose the question to itself, apart from the simple fact that it is a picture? The answer lies in the object photographed, the printed matchbook. More throwaway gestures: For the first group exhibition in which she was included, at Artists Space in , Lawler designed a logo for the gallery and had it printed on the cover of the catalogue.

My favorite of these ephemeral works dates, like Why Pictures Now , from Yet her most visible work since has consisted of the sort of photographs reproduced in the monograph.

She is not only re-posing the question of to her own book of pictures in but also suggesting that the question has reemerged as necessary with regard to the conditions of art practice generally.

In , I was asked by Helene Winer, then the director of Artists Space, to organize an exhibition of the work of emerging artists.