Article: Michael Bergt at Midtown Payson. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)

To cross the threshold of this exhibition was to enter a time warp with an added twist. At first glance, the small figurative pictures, meticulously rendered in a painstaking egg-tempera medium, elicited memories of Italian Renaissance panel paintings. Had we been mysteriously transported back to, say, quattrocento Ferrara, and were these enigmatic images - with their subtle aura of fantasy, psychological torment and impending crisis - somehow related to the crystal - clear solemnities of Cosimo Tura and Francesco del Cossa? A second look, however, yielded the kink, the realization that these seemingly italianate pictures owe a good deal more to those binary stars of some ...

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