http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/1594/rita-ackermann-fire-by-days/view/
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed this show. I thought it was some old dudess from the 1950s but she was born in 68. The paintings are crusty and big and look like pinocchio and a figure at the same time. I found it hard to work out whether they were just ok or good, whether the red was old fashioned or cool. I do wonder about the way every show must follow the tired format of 6 to 8 big works all around the same size and with the same theme, I know this "body of work" idea is the stuff taught in art schools, but really, why. It's become one of those deadening cliches of art exhibition.
Yes, you can get kind of lost in these paintings, and then go closer and see lots of surface, and then you go can round the corner to the National Gallery and do exactly the same thing with a Veronese, whose touch was somewhat better, but hey the wheel turns and so does the world.