Team Gallery in New York is currently in the final week of a group exhibition organized by Miriam Katzeff, titled “Forced Exposure” (July 1 through 30; 83 Grand Street, ground floor). One of the artists, Bjarne Melgaard’smost recent paintings are covers of old Screw magazines, which aredefaced with “crudely executed figures and scrawled texts from acontinuous novel that relies on the violent mythology surrounding theartist. Like the rest of Melgaard’s work, the fragmentedand diaristic qualities of the text lures the viewer into the artist’sconstructed personas and manipulates the relationship between fact andfiction.” As it happens, those old covers of Screw were done forty yearsago under my art direction.In fact, the one above was one of my favorite covers, showing anadorable sheep and macho ram in sweet embrace. Forget the copyrightissues, its fascinating to see something I’ve done so long ago, not onlyreinterpreted, but look so contemporary. Ah, the wonder of art.
Incidentally, according to Team Gallery’s press release “Thisexhibition focuses on works of art that position the viewer as aninterloper in the gallery. As technology encourages people to exposethemselves to unknown audiences online, the idea of privacy has relaxedto reflect these developments. The works on view test whether this lackof boundaries extends into the physical world. While the artists in theexhibition do not have a strictly confessional style, the works force animmediate and awkward intimacy onto the viewer.”
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