{"id":1609,"date":"2010-03-01T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/03\/alon_levin_-_fun_forests_for_p\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:43:47","slug":"alon_levin_-_fun_forests_for_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/03\/alon_levin_-_fun_forests_for_p.html","title":{"rendered":"Alon Levin – fun forests for purists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somewhere between sculpture stand and Donald Judd, Alon Levin<\/a> makes his pitch. He’s an impersonator, and his work is his wisecrack. It appears to be waiting to launch, but the launch doesn’t come. The jokes are on the tip of his tongue. His installations look like storage, but the pieces inside each one don’t quite make it as pedestals. What art would want to stand on the snappy splendor of such glory hogs?<\/p>\n

\"alonlevinredgroup.jpg\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

Placement is crucial. What could be a homage to luggage waiting to be loaded onto a private plane reads instead as architecture. Beside a house, a doorbell; in front, a walkway and garden. <\/p>\n

\"alonlevinredfocus.jpg\"<\/a>Once upon a time, a sculpture stand woke up as a painting. (Little lamb, if you are able, turn yourself into a table.)<\/p>\n

\"alonlevintablered.jpg\"<\/a>Levin’s backsides cue storage or even construction, the crew on its lunch break.<\/p>\n

\"alonlevinbackside.jpg\"<\/a>The artist thrusts the bit players of the museum experience into starring roles. They puff up into primary structures but trail a history of their servitude.<\/p>\n

\"alonlevineserve.jpg\"<\/a>They are also fun forests for purists. <\/p>\n

\"alonlevinefun.jpg\"<\/a>Levin’s Art for the Masses<\/i> at Ambach & Rice<\/a> through March 21. (Related: Roy McMakin<\/a>, also at Ambach & Rice.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somewhere between sculpture stand and Donald Judd, Alon Levin makes his pitch. He’s an impersonator, and his work is his wisecrack. It appears to be waiting to launch, but the launch doesn’t come. The jokes are on the tip of his tongue. His installations look like storage, but the pieces inside each one don’t quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}