Ireland's Circa art magazine has an excellent review on its on-line edition by the late, erudite actor and artist Noel Sheridan. He allowed the words of consensus curatorial blather to frame the artist's work. Give them enough rope. The italicized words are Sheridan's. Peruse these excerpts, then read the complete piece at Circa. Link below.
Karen Kilimnik: Fairy Battle, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, September 27, 2002, to February 2, 2003
One of the things Karen Kilmnik's ... installation ... does, because of her extreme take on form and content, is separate the...
The what? Getting a handle on an answer to that...
Karen Kilimnik: Fairy Battle, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, September 27, 2002, to February 2, 2003
One of the things Karen Kilmnik's ... installation ... does, because of her extreme take on form and content, is separate the...
The what? Getting a handle on an answer to that...
The work is an animated representation of the artist's interior life; all her wishes, dreams and desires are gathered here: ballerinas, charming fairies, wistful photos of snow scenes, over-the-top velvety paintings of flowers, spangly horses and...
This feels like shopping. ...
Kilmnik presses the Warholian envelope; ...it is that the signs of 'kitsch', technical awkwardness and formal ineptitude, may similarly signify as art.
This artist, however, is no out-of-control casualty of an uncaring world.
She orchestrates the prestigious setting; painting walls exotic colours to valorise tiny pictures...
This is banal.
Seldom has banality had a more passionate advocate. Her velvet-gloved, steely ambition...
Read the piece at
http://www.recirca.com/reviews/kkilimnik.shtml
Circa Art Magazine: http://www.recirca.com/
CIRCA is Ireland's leading magazine for contemporary visual arts. Appearing quarterly, its 112 full-colour pages contain news, reviews, previews, interviews, feature articles and a host of images. The magazine is dedicated to reflecting visual culture as it unfolds throughout Ireland while also reporting on important developments further afield.
Noel Sheridan, an artist who worked in a variety of media passed away in 2006.A trained actor turned artist, Noel was Director of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin from 1979 to 1999 and again, after a break, until 2003. Always bigger than life, he had a vast knowledge and understanding of the visual arts and the arts in general, but he wore this knowledge lightly and shared it generously.
This feels like shopping. ...
Kilmnik presses the Warholian envelope; ...it is that the signs of 'kitsch', technical awkwardness and formal ineptitude, may similarly signify as art.
This artist, however, is no out-of-control casualty of an uncaring world.
She orchestrates the prestigious setting; painting walls exotic colours to valorise tiny pictures...
This is banal.
Seldom has banality had a more passionate advocate. Her velvet-gloved, steely ambition...
Read the piece at
http://www.recirca.com/reviews/kkilimnik.shtml
Circa Art Magazine: http://www.recirca.com/
CIRCA is Ireland's leading magazine for contemporary visual arts. Appearing quarterly, its 112 full-colour pages contain news, reviews, previews, interviews, feature articles and a host of images. The magazine is dedicated to reflecting visual culture as it unfolds throughout Ireland while also reporting on important developments further afield.
Noel Sheridan, an artist who worked in a variety of media passed away in 2006.A trained actor turned artist, Noel was Director of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin from 1979 to 1999 and again, after a break, until 2003. Always bigger than life, he had a vast knowledge and understanding of the visual arts and the arts in general, but he wore this knowledge lightly and shared it generously.
At the Serpentine, KultureFlash loved her, but show their ignorance too in their own words. The rope.
"Read Karen Kilimnik's London press and you imagine weak, wishy-washy painting, but check out this show and you'll find the painter's equivalent of Sofia Coppola. Is she lost in translation, stuck in foreign lands, or eliding period features to contemporary style? Yes, yes and yes! Rather than virtuoso skill, cutting criticality or pomo intellectualisation, the Kilimnik style is expression; that is style in her subjects and style in the way she applies paint. Purpose and effect neatly dovetail into images of horses, candy-coated girls and pop stars... think of Buffy, that vampire slayer's attitude. But unlike la Coppola, Kilimnik's maturity allows her to coat her youthful exuberance with layered references. This time the Serpentine, with its painted rooms, odd installations and largish backyard, provide a theatrical backdrop to Kilimnik's vision. But honestly what is it with girls and horses?!"
I still think, like C Suarez de Jesus
that Kilimnik's art is "saccharine blush,""poofy," "Barbie-brained," "romantic hooey," and "dipsy doodles."
Also critic and painter Joseph Nechvatal describes Kilimnik’s work as “cloying faux-naive canvases" as well as "this boring, stupid and naive work.”
God, why did we install art schools?
Is this what looks like good art for the Irish museums?
Feeble Painting is not radical enough Mark - worse if it is combined with brain wanking curators texts...