EXHIBITIONS / THE CYCLOPEAN ORB IS A PHANTOM

23.09.2010 to 16.10.2010

“The cyclopean orb is a phantom, mounted in the perverse idealization of spectral Second Empire fashions. Its pupil is the vanishing point, a hollow cartouche like the orifice in a perfume burner, dispensing and absorbing the milky light that shines on Narcissus. Why is Second Empire Rococo so sinister and droll?”

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