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Article: Vidya Gastaldon and Jean-Michel Wicker at Robert Prime.(review of exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Constantly on the move from one city to another, French Gen-X artists Vidya Gastaldon and Jean-Michel Wicker have been collaborating since 1994, and their art is as stylistically peripatetic as their lives. In the process of exploring a psychic realm that stretches from the nursery into the future, the pair have produced such diverse items as giant pom-poms, improv dance videos, scatter installations, appliqued wall hangings and drawings reminiscent of Claes Oldenburg.
For their London debut, Gastaldon and Wicker turned the Robert Prime Gallery into a "landscape for living" that was at once childlike and esthetically sophisticated. A doughnut-shaped boulder ...
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... ... poignancy into the visceral spirit of violence, passion, and pain. Rare, 521 W 26th, 212-268-1520. Through October 4. Vidya Gastaldon A spare web of red wool stretches across the gallery to form the outline of a cartoon heart loose strands of yam dangling ...
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