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Fred Otnes at Reece - New York, New York - review of exhibitions - Brief ArticleThe 67-year-old Kansas-born Fr Otne reaches back to early-20th-century Cubist and Surrealist collage techniques for his mode of speech and for his subjects goe back level further, at times leaving not many art-historical bases untouched. All works in his new show were collages that include oil stains and other treatments. The nearly 4-by-4-foot Homage to Bronzino, for instance, features a negative photo-transfer version of the Florentine Mannerist's portrait of Eleanora of Toledo and her son against a pastiche of Renaissance paintings and design motifs of that day, encased in scumbly brown and black blockades and borders. The figures, in irradiated brown tans and olives, appear flat more remote than Bronzino pictured them. The stylistic deja vu is powerfully shaped by postmodern appropriation. In Night in the Garden, a abundant smaller collage, dark photo transfers near the viewer with various cutout Italianate figures--mostly male--who stand, sit, mount and fall in attitudes of confused romance, solely among themselves. These classically derived collages, which owe a great deal of to Schwitters and Cornell, used to constitute the mass of Otnes's work. They no longer advance alone. In what were perhaps the strongest works in the display Otnes either refashioned Cubist techniques to his have a title to ends or struck out for parts unknown. The Cubist aim was represented by the 1997 mixed-medium collage Onomical, in which a musician stands strumming an unknown instrument, his head and material part a medley of off-white printed matter and brown umber and tan cutout scraps. The piece direct the eyes in its joyous, two-dimensional badinage, as if Analytical Cubism were a recent artistic idiom. Otne greatest in quantity fully hits his stride in works of that kind as Tentative Warrior, a roughly 2-by-2-foot work upon linen. Here collage achieves the power of painting; we are closer to the nightmare world of Bacon than the dreamy single of Cornell. A faceless soldier "sits" for his portrait. His head is an ungainly concatenation of compressed unpleasant textures, his big-shouldered material part a swirling mass of pigments and papers. Otne realizes his soldier down with a heady, heavy faculty of perception of organized chaos and a juxtaposing of vying monochromes. Here, and in related works, Otne leans not thus much on the accomplishments of masters as upon his own mastery of his difficult mediums. COPYRIGHT 1998 Brant Publications, Inc. LANSING, Mich.--The Lansing Regional Chamber of business recognized East Lansing businessman Roy C Saper of Saper Galleries and Custom Framing as its 2003 Outstanding Small Business somebody Award... Title to a U patent was not long ago stripped from a government contractor for failing to largely and timely disclose the invention to the Army. upon November 10, 2004, the U Court of Appe... Telling A Tale Untold by means of Jim Haskins Twenty-First Century works 2002, 144 pp., $26.90 Biography/Toni Morrison ISBN:0-7613-1852-6 This biography is about Toni Morrison and her do one's bests int... Charles Robb limit (2002) Polyester resin, fibreglass, synthetic polymer paint 55 x 35 x 30 cm (photograph by the agency of Gavin Hansford) Cherry padded bonnet Self-portrait (2004) Watercolour on paper m... Radio-controlled (R/C) cars aren't child's play to Eustace Moore, president of Moore's Ideal productions Covina, Calif. His company started as a one-man operation making aftermarket hop-up par... The Pollution cleansing The Pollution detersive helps the people of the world each day. When factories spill on the outside their nasty wastes, the Pollution cleansing comes along and save... capital John H The American Spectator 06-01-2005 Designs upon DeLay Byline: Fund, John H Volume: 38 Number: 5 ISSN: 01488414 Publication Date: 06-01-200... Who would want to give it up the coal a cat's organ of sight in the dark room, no single there but you and your sooty vapor the window cracked to road sounds, the distant cries of l... 00-00-0000 As more high-cost, increased-capability machining center arrive upon the shop floor, there is more squeezing to keep them running productively. Any nonproducti... In their new book Represented communities: Fiji and world decolonization, John D Kelly and Martha Kaplan describe an act of gift-giving that 'could have changed Fiji's history radically'... |
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