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I'm informed that at the Venice Biennale in 1997 any such intrepid anal adventurer was welcomed by the sight of humans pleasuring animals and animals
pleasuring humans, projected on a screen approximately where the cloven bovine's diaphragm would be. Those delving Deep into Russia at HCMCA can
view something closer to torture than pleasure, a writhing dog suspended somehow from its mouth with a back/foredrop of brain shapes and suchlike. A
soundtrack on headphones completes the underwhelming experience.
The cow's arse pretty much sets the tone, disappointment most of the way. Photos
of bruised and battered prizefighters along one wall face photos of black and white wrapped figures in a desolate winter landscape which may achieve
poignancy in a different setting. There are a lot of thinly inspired paintings and a shockingly awful display of soft toy type things. The only arresting exhibits
are an entertaining series of comic book images by Lyudmila Gorlova,
Lichtenstein forty-odd years on. Some video art rounds off the exhibition, which, I
repeat, runs at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art until February 25th 2007.
Click here for more details.
Related link: Another view of this exhibition.
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That cow
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