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Articles about David Salle

David Salle: at the edges - artist

Interview by Frederic Tuten

I visited David Salle one afternoon this past spring to see his new work and to chat awhile. I was sitting there with him in the center of his studio surrounded by paintings looking at once familiar and wonderfully strange. As is David for me: the everyday David filled with energy and open intelligence, and the reserved and intellectually honeycombed David. The paintings were waiting to be packed off to be exhibited in Los Angeles at Gagosian, and wore the freshness of art just made, art innocent of viewers and critics. 7we atmosphere in the studio seemed fresh, too. A good place, I thought, after several years in which he has not been interviewed, to have David talk about himself and his art.
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David Salle at Gagosian - New York

By Edward Leffingwell

Each entry in David Salle's turgid art-about-art series of methodically interrelated pastoral excursions is sufficiently compelling to draw the viewer from one to the next and back again, through a minefield of process, iconography and art-historical allusion. Whether a studious charting of these elements provokes exhilaration or stupefaction, whether it's stimulating or exhausting, whether diligent examination confirms the artist's woozy merit or negates it--such readings are largely a matter of taste, not of the artist's ability. This show makes it evident that the serious nature of Salle's address remains intact.

Dating mostly from 2000, these 11 exercises on the theme of the fete champetre were selected from a larger body of work with similar concerns. Painted with oil and acrylic on linen and canvas, and on the generous side of easel scale, they are elaborations on a scene of idyllic rural intimacy taken from the familiar, decorative repeat of the toile de Jouy fabric now staking a recurrent claim to fashion. Each painting depicts a dapper country lad and a reluctant maiden dawdling on the bank of a mountain stream. Affecting a coy pose, she appears to strain at the laces of her bodice while recoiling from his display of a freshly caught fish, as though nothing good could come from offerings like this. He rests against a tree and she upon a boulder; behind them, a mountain peak and clouds recede into the distance. Read the entire article Source: http://www.findarticles.com

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