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Management is pleased to present The Permanent and the Insatiable, Xin Liu’s first exhibition with a gallery in New York. A text by Valerie Mindlin accompanies the exhibition.
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“Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man,” John Morley writes in 1871, the year The Equitable Life Building, one of Lower Manhattan’s first skyscrapers, rises up, supported by steel beams meant to keep it standing forever, indifferent to fires, floods, and natural forces; two years after the first synthetic polymer, the original industrial plastic, is invented as an entry in a New York business’s $10,000-prize open call for a cheap replacement for ivory.
Xin Liu’s The Permanent and the Insatiable: New York lays bare the tortured antinomy of immortality and destruction unfolding just behind the stage curtain of Too-Late Capitalism’s theater. This piece surfaces the notions of materiality,...More
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Management is pleased to present The Permanent and the Insatiable, Xin Liu’s first exhibition with a gallery in New York. A text by Valerie Mindlin accompanies the exhibition.
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“Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man,” John Morley writes in 1871, the year The Equitable Life Building, one of Lower Manhattan’s first skyscrapers, rises up, supported by steel beams meant to keep it standing forever, indifferent to fires, floods, and natural forces; two years after the first synthetic polymer, the original industrial plastic, is invented as an entry in a New York business’s $10,000-prize open call for a cheap replacement for ivory.
Xin Liu’s The Permanent and the Insatiable: New York lays bare the tortured antinomy of immortality and destruction unfolding just behind the stage curtain of Too-Late Capitalism’s theater. This piece surfaces the notions of materiality,...More
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