from Tony
2012.05.31 17:49
What's Rachel been reading
Hi Steve:
I was reading the May 28 New Yorker when I nearly fell out of my chair. Read the attached review of the Rachel Harrison show and you may have a reaction yourself. What are the odds she DIDN'T read about the back door at Quondam....almost nil, I should think.
Things are getting back to a semblance of normal, although I feel as I've stepped through a threshold and as usual there's no going back. What I mostly feel is a big void where there once was my dad, which is stronger than with any other passing away (Leslie was maybe the closest to it). I'll get in touch with you about doing another walk in the woods and/or scenic drive soon.
Hope all is well,
Tony
2012.06.01 13:16
Re: What's Rachel been reading
Hi Tony,
Thanks for the heads-up, but there really isn't anything I can do about it. Besides Museumpeace and Quondam, I made 'news' of Étant donnés' back door at the online Marcel Duchamp bulletin board (2002) and at artforum.com/talkback (2003), where I also commented on Rachel Harrison's work. I don't think anyone within the art world (or general public for that matter) would be aware of the back door if I hadn't publicized its existence via the internet 10 years ago.
I understand completely about the void you feel since your Dad's passing. I'm finding that its just like they say--only time will heal that.
I slowly but surely getting things done within the house, and I foresee being mostly done by the end of October--there's going to be a lot I can't do once the central air-conditioning is running all day.
Just give me a call whenever you'd like to get together again.
Steve
ps 2020.12.12
I'm now thinking that 'Kiss My Abstract' at artforum/talkback was actually Rachel Harrison, just like 'DuChamp' was actually T. J. Demos.
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Rachel Harrison The Help May 4 – June 16, 2012
Greene Naftali is pleased to present The Help, an exhibition by Rachel Harrison. The Help marks the New York artist’s sixth solo show at the gallery since 1997 and the first since If I Did It in 2007. The exhibition shares its title with Harrison’s photograph of the back door maintenance entrance to Duchamp's Étant donnés, which is visible in the exhibition galleries of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and alludes to the entangled roles of the Artist, the Muse, and the Help. The twelve sculptures on view in the exhibition combine formalist inspiration and tragicomic epiphany and are imbued with Harrison’s signature sense of slapstick timing. The Help also introduces a group of drawings in which Harrison explores the passion and pathology of the tortured artist, a figure suspended between the pressures of ambitious creative vision and the public hunger for performance.
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