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Article: Javier Tellez at Silverstein.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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If Javier Tellez, at 26, is representative of his generation, the well-cultured 20-somethings have come to control not only the theories of Marx, Freud, Fourier and Buckminster Fuller, but also the pharmaceutical solutions to the social anxieties that called for these theories.
The central work in this show, an 8-by-8-by-18-foot construction made of silver insulation paper on a plywood frame, represented a huge Prozac capsule. The vessel, in which the artist spent time during the run of the show, had a periscope and rested atop a sea of detergent granules. It's named Jonac 2001 mg, that is, Jonah plus Prozac magnified some 2000 times. Inside the belly of this ...