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If you are like me, The Shapes a Giggle Makes at Gattopardo marks your first glimpse of Wayne Koestenbaum’s art practice in person. If you are like me, you weren’t yet in Los Angeles the last time he mounted an exhibition here, back in 2016. But you have nonetheless been following Koestenbaum on Instagram for some time, and ingest his “content” soon after it is dispensed, multiple times a week, like a multivitamin. The acclaimed poet, painter, novelist, printmaker, musician, essayist, professor, performer, and filmmaker has been a prolific poster since commencing his art practice in 2010, and his deportment on the social media platform mirrors the manner of his work. Both are fêtes of frisky, unfettered pleasure, pure of heart and liberatory in spirit. Nutrition that the art world sorely needs.
Over Zoom, Koestenbaum told me that he considers Instagram his “main theater.” There certainly is a living, breathing, buffa quality to his online bricolage of pictures upon pictures upon…
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If you are like me, The Shapes a Giggle Makes at Gattopardo marks your first glimpse of Wayne Koestenbaum’s art practice in person. If you are like me, you weren’t yet in Los Angeles the last time he mounted an exhibition here, back in 2016. But you have nonetheless been following Koestenbaum on Instagram for some time, and ingest his “content” soon after it is dispensed, multiple times a week, like a multivitamin. The acclaimed poet, painter, novelist, printmaker, musician, essayist, professor, performer, and filmmaker has been a prolific poster since commencing his art practice in 2010, and his deportment on the social media platform mirrors the manner of his work. Both are fêtes of frisky, unfettered pleasure, pure of heart and liberatory in spirit. Nutrition that the art world sorely needs.
Over Zoom, Koestenbaum told me that he considers Instagram his “main theater.” There certainly is a living, breathing, buffa quality to his online bricolage of pictures upon pictures upon…
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