Luke Diiorio: Never Stop Improving Robert Blumenthal 1045 Madison Ave., (646) 852-6332 Through July 2 Installation art hasnt been radical, let alone shocking, for at least 25 years. The mode has become the common—perhaps most common—ingredient in graduate-thesis exhibitions. These days, installation art has to be either brutally spectacular (Thomas Hirschhorn and Paul McCarthy come to mind) or smart. Never Stop Improving by Luke Diiorio (who was born in 1983 but didnt graduate from art school—the Royal College of Art in London—until last year) is very smart: modest, minimal and measured. Mr. Diiorio deconstructs the north and south ends of an Upper East Side gallery with carefully proportioned pieces of dry wall, insulation and metal studding. Looking through the studs, one sees clever (in the best sense of the word) photographic screens faintly depicting, for instance, an oversize intercom phone. Its not so much what Mr. Diiorio does that succeeds, but what he doesnt do: He doesnt overload the premises with material or visual puns. You almost—but not quite—believe the gallery is undergoing a poetic renovation. This is what satisfyingly intelligent installation art can do.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 03:02:28 +0000
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