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Article: Alice Aycock. (exhibit at the John Weber Gallery, New York, New York) (Reviews)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
- Author:
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JOHN WEBER GALLERY
In this startlingly seductive show sculptures, drawings, and texts conspired to create an absurd parallel universe replete with desire and violence. Aycock's work invoked a dizzying array of esoteric allusions, including references to the Hebrew Cabala and Max Planck's theory of quantum physics. The three complex sculptures--two recent works and a "blade machine" from 1984--evoked amusement-park architecture, ancient astronomical devices, and alarmingly oversized pocket games and pinwheels. Together, all the pieces in the show meditated on our psychological investment in understanding the universe: in six of the seven ink drawings precisely drawn ...
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