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2012, Sep 16
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Recent graduate of the rigorous, thus prestigious, Yale MFA, painting program, [redacted]’s solo show, [redacted], debuts here at [redacted] in Tokyo, from September 7 through October 13, 2012.

Gesture in painting not only refers to the brush stroke and form of line, but to also materiality in canvas— including substrate and structure—, paint, application, and display with self-conscious awareness of installation.

From the pompous (but justified!) attitude to the laughable punctuation, this is one of the worst art press releases I’ve seen. I won’t easily forget the phrase “rigorous, thus prestigious”…

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It’s just a bad translation. I’m sure the Japanese version is fine.

Unless that WAS the original.

Posted by Dan / September 17, 2012 at 3:05 pm:

Yes, this is the original.

Posted by microcord / September 17, 2012 at 9:51 pm:

I rather like the idiosyncratic punctuation.

But as for its other aspects, you’re too kind.

Posted by Russ / September 18, 2012 at 4:05 pm:

Dan – here’s one I saw in a similar vein:

“Comprised of 37 pictures taken since our last show – most of which appear in [redacted]’s new book “[redacted]” – the work shows his continuing evolution as a photographer. The compositions are more varied, the human element more pronounced, and the work now seems to belong as much to the ethnographic school of photography and the tradition of August Sander, Penn’s “Worlds in A Small Room”, and Avedon’s “American West” series as the world of street fashion.”

I won’t easily forget the idea of Sander being a street style snapper…….

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