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Article: Annette Messager: Marian Goodman Gallery.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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I imagine that winning a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale would be a pretty hard act to follow. This was the predicament Annette Messager must have found herself in, contemplating her first solo show in Marian Goodman's New York space not too long after the success of her Pinocchio-themed "Casino" pavilion in 2005. In response to potentially stultifying validation, she seems to have decided that a certain caution might be warranted. While "Mettre aux Mondes" ("To Bring into the Worlds") is still marked by Messager's flights of surreal, often violent, fancy, it is also downright circumspect. The panoply of objects in this exhibition oscillates between the diminutive and ...
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