Word: ica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bent with the Eyes" (1970) is just one of the many pieces in the ICA's thoughtfully installed show which explicitly explore the viewer's relationship to the work of art by confounding normal perception. One of Brazil's most important contemporary artists, Meireles is often associated with Conceptual Art, which engages the viewer with an idea rather than an actual art object. Meireles, like the most famous Conceptual artists, including Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner, gained critical acclaim in the 1970s. Through the medium of language, Kosuth and Weiner examine such issues as the commodification of the art object...
...ICA's well-produced orientation video, Meireles likens the place of a Latin-American contemporary artist to the spectator at the back of a movie theater, watching the film and the audience reacting in front of him. So while he and other Latin-American artists like Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica may have had their eyes on the art world, few could see them in the back row. Yet as his retrospective proves, he has consistently engaged, and sometimes foreseen, the same theoretical issues and artistic strategies of his better-known international counterparts. His installations of room corners, whose walls...
With the pornographic quality of the work, some people have said that the "The Boston School," now at the Institute for "Contemporary Art (ICA), is just "A 'gay hustler' show." It can look that way, but such a dismissal does not do the exhibition justice...
...preoccupation with color surfaces in the paintings of Tabboo!, who achieves through painting what the rest of the Boston School do through photography. It is unfortunate that the work represented in the exhibition is not Tabboo!'s best, but the pieces at the ICA give the viewer an idea of some of his concerns gay art and the drag subculture. For example, the flamboyant gesture of "Pink," which is a picture of the word "pink" painted in different shades of pink, plays on the association of pink with gay culture...
...Boston School," which is running at the ICA until December 31, is the first time all of these artists have come together for an exhibition. It is a chance to see their oeuvre as a group and proves much more rewarding than if they were seen on their own. Their individual accomplishments, though distinguished, become even more powerful as we see how they have played off each other...