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Domestic globalism at the Carnegie - 1995 Carnegie International (February 1996)
creator(s) Brooks Adams
publisher Brant Publications, Inc.
Brooks Adams characterizes the Clamp as follows:
'At the 1995 International, there is a notable absence of humor or subversive irony; possible exceptions are Tony Oursler's talking-head video sculptures and Franz West's sculptural re-creation of his Viennese studio. The latter comes complete with working telephones, an old couch where you can sit and make local calls, a scrappy wallpaper treatment of telephone book pages, a freestanding commodelike structure whose rough papier-mache surfaces are brushed yellow on one side and black on the other, and even the actual linoleum of his studio floor imported for the occasion--all installed in the Carnegie's baroque decorative-arts gallery. The august tapestries and inlaid Dutch cabinets of the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries are suddenly enlisted in a new, self-conscious evocation (and perhaps a parody) of overstuffed imperial Viennese taste.'
English
Art in America, Vol. 84 No. 2, pp. 32-37, New York, ISSN 0004-3214
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