The intimacy of slow looking
The exhibit, “Porous Images” by Dwaine Carver and Alex Carver, is open now until Thursday, Oct. 26 in the Blue Galleries at the Center for the Visual Arts, Boise State
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Dean Kissick on Alex Carver - Artforum International
Oh, wretched ephemeral race . . . Why do you compel me to tell you what it would be most expedient for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly beyond your reach: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is—to die soon.—Silenus, the satyr, to King Midas, who had finally caught him, as retold by Friedrich Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy (1872)ALEX CARVER’S RECENT BODY OF WORK, made over the past few years, fixates on the torture of human bodies. His painted figures are always suffering or else inflicting suffering on others, and he appears to revel in...
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