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...self-image and physical obsession, works dealing primarily with issues of figuration and the body are especially relevant. They hold together as perhaps the most coherent and complete segment of the exhibit. Comprised of paintings by Richard Phillips and Jenny Saville, a photograph by Charlie White, and a sculptural triptych by Louise Bourgeois, the group provides a thorough investigation of female bodily concerns and dilemmas inherent in feminine sexuality...
Louise Bourgeois’s triptych, “Obese Bulimic Anorexic” (2001), deals with similar issues of control, self-loathing and aggression in a slightly more obvious way. Composed of stuffed, flesh colored stockings, her figures resemble homemade dolls, maybe even a variant of the voodoo doll or a reference to the fertility goddess, the Venus of Willendorf. The three figures play out an ambiguous progression of weight gain, emotional trauma and aging. Their armless bodies are scarred with seams betraying surgery, deformity or self-mutilation...
...classical component has been a pervading thread through much of his painting and sculpture, perhaps most notably in the 1964 triptych Iliam (One Morning Ten Years Later), the 1991 sculpture Thermopylae, and, especially, the ten-part 1979 painting Fifty Days at Iliam...
Ackroyd and Harvey used as the subjects of their photographs people and objects that inhabit the Gardner. The two largest pieces face each other and have a particularly compelling relationship. One, a triptych on hinges, is comprised of three panels: a bookshelf in the museum at the center and the exit doors on the side panels. Facing that piece is “Script.” As if one had been able to open a book on the photographed shelf “Script” displays a close up of an excerpted passage from Dante?...
...three-dimensional quality of Hofer's work is brought out in the closing triptych of the "Kunsthalle Karlsruhe." In this photograph, a room is portrayed from three different angles. There are barely sufficient points of commonality to establish that this is indeed a single room. As we make the identification, the room, flooded with light, springs out in what must be every realtor's dream; we are transported from the empty room we stand in to the empty room that is being sold...