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...boldly offsetting the colorful effusiveness of Gerhard Richter and the restrained hysteria of Max Beckmann. Also notable is a series of Bauhaus paintings (including works by Malevich and El Lissitsky), a pair of Jawlensky portraits, and an unusual Klimt. Currently on display is a collection of works by Hannah Darboven, touted by the curatorial staff as "one of the most important active German artists today." While Darboven's cutting-edge exploration of calendrical counting systems is mildly thought provoking, it is nonetheless another disappointing exa.m.ple of the diminishing importance of aesthetic value in contemporary art. Upstairs from the works...
Group shows range from the very far-out (drawings by Robert Barry and Germany's Hanne Darboven, among others, at Leo Castelli, 4 E. 77th St.) through "classical" modernism (Jules Olitski and other color-field artists at Knoedler Contemporary Art (19 E. 70th St.) to a diverting collection of views of New York by American artists (John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Guy Pène du Bois at the Hammer Galleries, 51 E. 57th...
...show, low energy slides into mere inconsequence. Their work is elaborately hermetic, and so looks like a manifesto. But what is being manifested? Manual labor, apparently-endless somnambulistic notations, proffering not a whit of meaning. One could possibly train ants to do it. Thus the German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, 33, has assembled two huge panels, each made of several hundred sheets of paper scrawled with words-strings of unrelated numbers, written out in German. This arithmorrhea, she assures the catalogue reader, has nothing to do with mathematics. Nor, apparently, is it meant to be considered a work...
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