Word: chromed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just been maintaining - on the news equivalent of small-dose methadone and cheap card tricks of "reality" like "The Blair Witch Project." At the end of summer 2000, we have exhausted even such idiot's delights as "Survivor." We push around the streets of big cities on tiny chrome scooters, like 10-year-olds, and argue about The Kiss, or about George W. Bush's I.Q.? "The Blair Witch Project" is out in video, so a few might go back to that.?(But the word I get is that that wasn't real documentary footage anyway! It was a fake...
...avoids linear meaning and sculptural formalism, displaying instead a fetishistic obsession with surface textures, transparency, translucency and reflection in works like "Three Clouds" (cubes patterned with cloud images), "Phono Records" (four LPs made of different materials) and, most impressively, his huge array of objects cast in a high-sheen chrome. The series of metallic West African votive dolls are craftily placed together in the penultimate room of the exhibition space, mimicking an ethnographic collection...
...substance promising to restore the voluptuous powers of youth to the scuffed and dented flesh of middle age. If you happen to be a man, the very idea is bound to appeal to your inner hood ornament, to that image of yourself as all wind-sheared edges and sunlit chrome. And besides, there's the name: testosterone! Who can say no to something that sounds like an Italian dessert named after a Greek...
...know how to use it. In the frenzy of perpetual motion we want to re-create the space around us, not as our only joy but because we can, and because that way it's our space. We're snapping up translucent blueberry-tinted computers, bubbled cars and little chrome cell phones as fast as they can be produced. We're fully employed, and we want something to show for it, even if we're not Internet billionaires. So where design used to be considered vaguely precious, the province of the Sub-Zero-refrigerator-owning elite, it's now available...