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Article: Victor Man: Timothy Taylor Gallery.
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- Artforum International
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- September 1, 2006
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The most explicit work in Romanian artist Victor Man's exhibition "The place I'm coming from," Untitled (1939), 2006, comprises a pair of paintings: a film-still image of Dorothy's ruby slippers, and a blurry, demonic female Santa, crushing underfoot the head of a man lying beneath her. The subtext is the disturbing contemporaneity of two events in 1939--the escapist Hollywood fantasy The Wizard of Oz and Europe's definitive succumbing to Nazism. As ever with Man, the connection between the images is never overt, although a peculiar parallel is drawn between the delicate pose of the glittering red shoes and Santa's slick white boots, positioned on the man's head with ...
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