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...example, the projection facing the exhibit's entrance flicks slowly from a barely legible Walter Benjamin quotation on a computer screen to a fuzzy video image of a building sporting another quote on windblown banner. To compensate for the poor image quality and slow scene change, each quotation is re-printed on plaques next to the projection...
...self-consciousness and selfinvestigation in his pieces from the 1970s. A series of four photographs from 1975 shows questionnaires that Kosuth demanded that his viewers complete before leaving the gallery. The questionnaire asks the viewer to respond not only to the work, which is not shown in the MIT exhibit, but also to contemporary politics, such that one questionnaire mentions U.S. foreign policy with Cuba...
...from bland, Kosuth's most recent work consists largely of a dozen photographs of his billboards in major cities throughtout Europe and the U.S. These photos, by far the most visually compelling and intellectually intriguing pieces in the exhibit, show paragraphs of original prose, printed on billboards that blend into the cityscape, even capturing people's candid reactions to the esoteric signs. A knowledge of German, French or other European languages would help the viewer because no translations accompany these photographs. But there are enough photos of billboards in New York and California that the English-speaking viewer can gather...
...thirty-year retrospective, the exhibit seems somewhat cramped and a little too casually put together. For lack of space for coat racks, the few viewers line their bags and coats on the floor, beneath the photographs...
Nonetheless, the exhibit presents a wonderful opportunity to read some eloquent prose about art and contemporary society. A few of the photographs are both intelligent and beautiful, and the show, though not multimedia itself, demonstrates Kosuth's ability to take advantage of creative, often surprising, venues of expression...