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From: anon
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 08 March 2001
People always talk about the eye of a collector. I met a guy at this opening who told me di Biumo had a great eye, that he owned 2500 paintings and had bought biggies like Rauschenburg early. It seems to me that having a good eye means having a lot of money and occasionally buying the work of someone who becomes really famous. The art world being as small as it is, and containing so few people with any kind of original judgement, it cannot be diificult to get a good eye. Just buy some fashionable stuff before it all starts going to museums. On the evidence of this show di Biumo's eye seems to have deteriorated during the 80's and 90's. The work was by a bunch of minimalists whom no one seemed to have heard of. Perhaps it is too early and they are the next big thing. Anne Appleby, Max Cole, Allan Graham, Timothy Litzman, Emil Lukas, Gregory Mahoney, Julia Mangold, Maurizio Mochettti, Peter Shelton, Robert Therrien, Robert Tiemann. Boring Minimalists. Though boring is too strong a word for them. I think that Video has a greater potential for boring. This work had a pleasurable decorative quality that was totally painless. Here are some of the titles: " No Title (Flag Pole Black)", "Homage to Malevich", " Simple Clear Tube", "Greyfloater", " Yellow with Grey Edge", "Untitled 5-5-1996", " Painting over Four Drawings about Flow".Here are some of the materials " plywood, silicon carbide, bolts", "wood, paper, ink, rabbit glue", "tin cans, steel, oil paint", "acrylic on plexiglass" Enough said. Why bother?
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