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March 8 / March 15 / March 22 / March 29,
2002
Art Listings
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MATTHIAS GROEBEL, "Vanishing Points," UCU, 507 West 24th Street,
(212) 727-7575 (through April 6). Using machinery that he designs
and programs himself, Mr. Groebel creates softly pixilated,
multipaneled green-tinged paintings of images taken from odd videos,
like one for training bodyguards. The imagery, which for no very
clear reason is overlaid in places with Japanese subtitles for the
movie "American Beauty," has a bleak, airless quality that calls to
mind Gerhard Richter. The biggest, an image of tangled bodies, is
called "Pietà" but looks more like a "Deposition"; in any case, it
is sensuous, watery and woozy (Johnson).
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