The Shadow of the Cover . 2015
Balthus painted “La Patience” in 1943 when Daniel Buren was 5 years old. When I happened upon it in 2013 at The Art Institute of Chicago, I was reminded of my fetish for the arcane of the diagonal and the erotics of its posture. Behind the young Jeanette Adry in “La Patience,” painted in a dry and professional-like manner, were Buren’s iconic institutional stripes; as curtains. Continue reading Matthew Metzger
