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Title: Anthony Goicolea by Anthony Goicolea, Jane Harris ISBN: 1-931885-11-7 Publisher: Twin Palms Pub Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Vignettes of Pubertal Narcissism Starring Sex and Aggression
Comment: To open an art mag is to see so much art. Our world has become more and more visual in the last 20 years: MTV, Industrial Light & Magic, flashy product design... So little actually can be called arresting. Flipping through magazines, Anthony Goicolea's work actually caught my attention in the riot of color that is our modern world. Its themes are strangely diffuse but all very relevant: Our growing interest in male adolescent sexuality and aggression, our nervous anticipation of human cloning, our need to find the last taboo standing.
Goicolea's work is photomontage in which the 20something artist dresses and poses in such a way as to seem 13-15 years old. Usually, his photographs contain multiple images of himself as an early adolescent interacting with each other to produce the effect of a gaggle of boys doing boyish things. These might be anything: bullying, bare-knuckles fighting, masturbation, receiving Holy Communion, playing a prank, engaging in sport.
The photos are highly stylized, slick and beautiful. They appear a bit like movie stills of a film never made. It adds to their mystique that we are forced to fill in narrative around them. It is interesting the artist chooses to focus on early male adolescence, a time of isolation and transgression. The photos then are cool and distant while hinting at a roil of desire.
With his interchangable and narcissistic boy-clones/septuplets, Goicolea makes a statement about the closed world of the pubertal boy. His secret wants, his bewildering changes are kept to himself. The viewer looks on voyeuristically, never to truly enter the sexually febrile, wildly imaginative, wolfishly violent mind of our subject and his Doppelgangers.
Rating: 4
Summary: insane
Comment: off-the-hook beautiful. dark, satyrical, amazing and original
storytelling - painstaking composition,staging. an eye for
stark, whimsical truth.
highly recommended...
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Title: Jack Pierson: Every Single One of Them by Jack Pierson ISBN: 0944092780 Publisher: Twin Palms Pub Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Room to Play by Simen Johan, Lyle Rexer ISBN: 1931885095 Publisher: Twin Palms Pub Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: A Story Book Life by Philip-Lorca diCorcia ISBN: 1931885230 Publisher: Twin Palms Pub Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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Title: Devil's Playground by Nan Goldin ISBN: 0714842230 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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Title: Sam Carson: First Exposure by Sam Carson ISBN: 3861873591 Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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