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Wednesday 9 February 2022

Artlyst: My Art Diary And Other Thoughts February 2022

My latest article for Artlyst is my diary piece for February with exhibitions involving Rachel Feinstein, Lakwena Maciver and Susan Rothenberg:

"Living through the pandemic and re-reading an article from 2003 by Steven Vincent on her Crucifixion sculpture, fashioned as a response to 9/11, made Rachel Feinstein want to use religious iconography in her work again. The result is Mirror, her current art exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery.

Vincent’s article is entitled ‘The Plywood Intercessor’ and toys with the possibility that Feinstein’s Crucifixion ‘can be understood as apotropaic-or an object that petitions a divine agency to put demons to flight and defend the believer from harm.’

For Mirror Feinstein has taken images by Tilman Riemenschneider and Gregor Erhart that represent Christ, the apostles, saints, and Mary Magdalene as symbols of compassion, suffering, and love, and reproduced these with oil on mirrored glass as historical and religious symbols embodying worldwide anxieties of the unknown during the time of COVID. The unpainted passages within these pieces – eyes and edges – enable the viewers to see themselves in or alongside the Biblical characters, an act of identification or empathy. Feinstein says she has found ‘inspiration and energy from drawing these universal images.’"

For more on Lakwena Maciver, see my Artlyst interview here, a visual meditation here, and an article about emerging religious artists here.

My other pieces for Artlyst are:

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