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Catalog of an exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, from January 11-February 17, 2018
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Beschreibung:
In richly detailed sculptures and multipart installations, Feinstein considers the sumptuous materiality of historical European luxury, updating its refined surfaces and edges with a gritty and approximate excess. Borrowing freely from Baroque and Rococo sculpture, religious iconography, Romantic landscapes, and mainstream media, she explores issues of taste and desire, synthesizing visual and societal opposites such as romance and pornography, elegance and kitsch, the marvelous and the utterly banal. 'Secrets' consists of new sculptures, wallpaper, and paintings in which Feinstein cannibalizes notions of beauty, belief, and spectacle to reveal perfection as a form of burlesque. The Secrets is a series of eight large-scale sculptures that reflects on the Victoria's Secret phenomenon, with its trademark 'Angels' in their jaw-dropping lingerie costumes'dressed as butterflies, firebirds, baby dolls, snow queens, and more'strutting their stuff at the brand's annual fashion extravaganza that is broadcast to millions of ogling fans worldwide. Feinstein's figures have been scaled up in hard foam from small clay maquettes, then individual hues applied piece by piece in hand-colored epoxy resins. Two book blocks, each with its own cover and dedicated to a single body of work, are united by a Z-fold binding. Exhibition: Gagosian, Beverly Hills, USA (11.01-17.02.2018)