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| Julia Dault, Untitled 20 (1:00pm - 5:30 pm, February 5, 2012) |
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| Julia Dault, Untitled 20 (1:00pm - 5:30 pm, February 5, 2012) |
Over thirty emerging artists, mostly from outside the United States and Western Europe and all under 35years old, have filled the New Museum with a diverse range of artwork for its second triennial, The Ungovernables. Though the subversive and rebellious premise of the show sounds promising, curator Eungie Joo fails to create a unifying aesthetic in this large, uneven exhibit. And still this show feels significant, if only for its attempt to tackle some of the complex and substantial topics that occupy our current social and political landscapes.
There are many stand-out pieces that successfully engage the socio-political themes of the show- though reliance on explanatory text unfortunately permeates The Ungovernables. Amalia Pica’s light installation Venn Diagrams (under the spotlight), is elegantly profound, but only after the description explains why. Julia Dault’s pieces are among the best here. They confront form and material in a way that tackles “ungovernability” head on and gives us the opportunity to have a dialog with art, not text. The peerless standout of the show: Adrian Villar Roja’s twenty-foot high clay sculpture, A Person Loved Me. It is nothing less than a monument to the ravaged potential of a mechanized existence and, unlike the spoon-fed explanation of the show that is reiterated on each floor, it is this piece that covey’s the momentum of the generation and ideas behind The Ungovernables.
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| Adrian Villar Rojas, A person loved me, 2012 |
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