Marc Desgrandchamps @ Galerie Zürcher, NYC
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 2:18 pmArt Critical.com were flagging this guy. I'd never heard of him so I took a look.
Not absolutely staggering, but vaguely interesting, occupying that tricky territory somewhere in between David Salle and Henri Matisse. It's all the babes in swinsuits that probably tell against him as a serious, Tuymans-like, ironist. But he definitely has a touch, albeit a very thin and runny one - which is more than you can say for Salle. Imagine if Salle had developed a touch instead of becoming a designer. And was French! That's sort of the territory here.
Apart from the gallery slideshow, I found these.
He's cool.
Note: heavy-hitters Schwabsky and David Cohen endorse him. Could be the start of something for the guy, who is 52 I think, so been working up to this...
Not absolutely staggering, but vaguely interesting, occupying that tricky territory somewhere in between David Salle and Henri Matisse. It's all the babes in swinsuits that probably tell against him as a serious, Tuymans-like, ironist. But he definitely has a touch, albeit a very thin and runny one - which is more than you can say for Salle. Imagine if Salle had developed a touch instead of becoming a designer. And was French! That's sort of the territory here.
Apart from the gallery slideshow, I found these.
He's cool.
Note: heavy-hitters Schwabsky and David Cohen endorse him. Could be the start of something for the guy, who is 52 I think, so been working up to this...