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Article: Joseph Havel: Museum of Fine Arts.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Joseph Havel's recent sculpture seamlessly melds compositional strategies indebted to post-Minimalism with metaphorically resonant objects. In his recent ten-year retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the combination of style and subject was almost perfect, its effect both elegaht in its capitalization on the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed galleries and more than a little sorrowful in its take on gender-role conformity.
The overwhelming majority of objects shown here make use of either fabric or fabric cast in bronze. Bruised, 2004, for example, consists of a Carl Andre-like grid of boxes containing specially fabricated shirt labels, each printed ...
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