Word: exhibitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nizami--"Wonders of the Age," in its rawest form is a collection of illustrations that accompanied 16th century Iranian epic poems. Although the paintings--the majority of which are drawn from the two books--dazzle at 50 paces, they don't quite have the flash of recent popular exhibitions. The Persian miniatures lack the lustrous, overpowering gold of Tut, the intricate bejeweled splash of the Sythian gold, or the chic of just-released objects of Chinese archeology. If anything, the exhibit's origin--Iran--work against its success. But "Wonders of the Age," like its proprietor, is not your average...
Inside the museum, where the exhibit is supposed to be, not a thing is changed; all the paintings are in their usual places. A visitor looking for this temporary exhibit would be hardpressed to find anything which could qualify as "The Exhibit of Perfect," and would soon find himself turning over in his mind the vaguely amusing questions he might put to the guard: "Excuse me sir, but I can't find the perfect here. Could you lead me to the perfect?" Finally, the visitor would leave feeling mildly puzzled or self-consciously gullible or simply vexed at having wasted...
There is nothing in the "Exhibition of Perfect," so that some people will leave thinking that Byars has failed to exhibit the perfect and has only exhibited the vanity of such an attempt. But James Lee Byars himself gently insists that "I have exhibited it here." The curator of the museum, Mark Huckhauser, who discovered Byars and brought him here for the month of April, also believes in "The Exhibition of Perfect. He says Byars' work has a "feeling of purity," and that he would "challenge anyone to find fault with his exhibition." He describes the opening night of this...
...still debatable whether "the exhibit of perfect" has been a success or a failure. And indeed, it is also a testament to the idea that the success or failure of such an exhibit has nothing at all to do with the content being or not being there, that the suggestion of an art exhibit will suffice in place of a real one. Is it outrageous that an artist can, by simply announcing that he is exhibiting something, make others around him believe that this is what he is really doing? Some are bound to think so. Some guests who attended...
HOWEVER outrageous such an exhibit may strike some, this exhibit of perfect is not Byars' only conceptual art work. He created "The Perfect Kiss," at Berkeley's University Art Museum, a show in which Byars "mounted a low, white platform in one corner, composed himself for a moment, then pursed his lips." On the first of May Byars will depart for Italy to design a 100-foot pink flag for the Venice Biennial Celebration. Byars says that he also runs the "World Question Center," and he adds that he is the only one left in it. The skeptic will naturally...