The Burden
of Bridges
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
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Innocuous to the point of sublimity
or ridiculousness. The one pictured here is from a 1916 toy catalog, others
reproduce well-known bridges. What is the satisfying gambit? In an age of tomfoolery,
the forward-thinking mind pins all its hopes on expressly the pin that
deflates the gasbag. Hence these mighty tiny pieces of execution (with an
expert toymaster), clear and transparent as the child’s imagination, large
enough to walk under, tiny in relation to the historical examples they mimic. |
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