Article: Deviation standard: Jeffrey Kastner on SITE Santa Fe.(Us News)(includes related article: SITE Santa Fe Biennial Artists (to date))

"DISPARITIES AND DEFORMATIONS: OUR Grotesque"--the evocative title selected by Robert Storr for SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial--might at first glance suggest a curatorial riposte to the previous installment of the New Mexico institution's signature exhibition event, Dave Hickey's 2001 "Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism." After all, in its common pejorative sense, the grotesque would seem to be the antithesis of the sort of worldliness to which Hickey's title provisionally alludes, a zone not of refinement and urbanity but of disharmony, disenfranchisement, and aberrance. Yet as with Hickey, who had often grappled with questions of beauty and the ...

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