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Pop Surrealism 1998

Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

Excerpts from the article: Artforum “Pop surrealism.” (exhibit at Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art) Oct, 1998 by Steven Henry Madoff

Sprawling through Ridgefield, Connecticut’s Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, “Pop Surrealism” proves one point above all else: at the end of the century in the visual arts, invention is a form of debt. The mutant sensibility at work in this droll, smartly curated exhibition proposes the marriage of Surrealism’s dream-laden fetish for the body eroticized and grotesque and Pop art’s celebration of the shallower, corrosively bright world given over to the packaged good.
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      • Pop Surrealism: Aldrich Museum
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      • RattleX: Grounds for Sculpture
      • Zero Point Zero: Newark Museum
      • Paul Henry Ramirez with designer Rachel Roy: Bergdorf Goodman and New Museum
      • BALLS: Tang Museum
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      • RATTLE: Grounds for Sculpture
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