{"id":342,"date":"2009-03-17T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/03\/installation_as_empty_stage_se\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T17:07:09","slug":"installation_as_empty_stage_se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/03\/installation_as_empty_stage_se.html","title":{"rendered":"Installation as empty stage set"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bas_louter3.jpg\"<\/span>An exhibit that meant little to me when it was on view won’t go away now that it’s gone – Bas Louter<\/a>‘s Dust (Asphalt)<\/i> at Ambach & Rice<\/a>. Paintings fanned out across the walls like pages of a book riffling in the wind. <\/p>\n

The images in black and white were muted and deliberately vague. A
\nwoman stood beside a car in a pose familiar from advertising: Buy this car and get the girl.<\/i>
\nBut car and girl were a myopic blur drained of color. Clowns gazed
\ninto the middle distance, where no performance takes place. A portrait
\nof a <\/em>humanoid ape lifted the corner of its thick lip, either to greet or
\ngrowl. She’s from Planet of the Apes<\/i> but can’t be found in any frame of the movie.<\/p>\n

Dust (Asphalt)<\/i> was neither here nor there. I thought when I saw it that Louter’s efforts would make a good stage set for an absurdist drama, but lacking the drama, lacked visual momentum. Louter is one of those artist who appears to paint on a whim. He could just as easily take photos, make videos or pile empty suitcases in a corner. HIs paintings neither catch nor kill. Teflon, engagement slides off them, and I think, in retrospective, that is the point.  <\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n

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An exhibit that meant little to me when it was on view won’t go away now that it’s gone – Bas Louter‘s Dust (Asphalt) at Ambach & Rice. Paintings fanned out across the walls like pages of a book riffling in the wind. The images in black and white were muted and deliberately vague. A […]<\/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":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}