Word: sigmar
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...haze, like a distracted viewer spinning the TV dial. Its leading practitioner in the U.S., among those born after 1950, is David Salle, 32. His main compositional device, putting emblems over a tangle of "transparent" figures, came straight from late Francis Picabia and perhaps from Salle's German contemporary Sigmar Polke. There is also a strong debt to earlier James Rosenquist. Salle draws, or rather traces, awkwardly and flatly. His imagery mimics the nullifying influence of TV, its promotion of derisive inertia as the hip way of seeing. Underneath, a congealed eroticism, derived from the misogynies of soft porn...
Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St., Boston, 266-5151. Richard Milani; Menchu Lamas; Anish Kapoor; Leon Glub; Anton Patiflo: Sigmar Polks: Howard Fried; Nan Goldin...