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Article: John Currin at Andrea Rosen.(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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A painterly fugue of attenuated limbs, perky breasts, fecund bellies and other suggestive but impenetrable iconographic details plays across the disturbingly handsome, if unexamined, surfaces of John Currin's recent crypto-mannerist nudes. In this exhibition he escalates his evident enjoyment of handling paint in a way that is as playfully engaging as it is provocative. At the same time he bypasses the rigor, conviction and moral authority of more ambitious artists associated with figurative and art-historical concerns.
While remaining improbable in anatomical proportion, his newest women are less the objects of inflated pneumatic desire than those previously ...