From: Ratz
Category: Art
Date: 23 May 2005
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/untitled/ortega/default.shtm
Ortega, the Mexican, makes the kind of playful art you often see filling up Biennales. Sometimes the solemn jokesters really hit the mark. His deconstructed, defenestrated, window is both beautiful and mind-boggling. The panes hang in the air receding into space behind the frame. You have to see it. It makes you look through a window.
The rest of the art is the usual trivial plays on modernism/minimalism whatever. As though you give great meaning to something by just taking one form and linking it to another idea. Object with witticism. Slight.
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