Comments on: Jet Set Saturdays: Justin Beal and Martin Kersels at ACME http://www.artlurker.com/2010/04/jet-set-saturdays-justin-beal-and-martin-kersels-at-acme/ A Miami based contemporary art newsletter / blog Fri, 24 May 2013 05:14:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mary Anna Pomonis http://www.artlurker.com/2010/04/jet-set-saturdays-justin-beal-and-martin-kersels-at-acme/comment-page-1/#comment-10104 Mary Anna Pomonis Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:52:25 +0000 http://www.artlurker.com/?p=4079#comment-10104 Thanks for the thoughtful reading. Your to the point criticism feels almost like a psychic read of my ego issues. You see I have always thought of the library as a hot house.I venture to guess that you do as well..... Thanks for the thoughtful reading. Your to the point criticism feels almost like a psychic read of my ego issues. You see I have always thought of the library as a hot house.I venture to guess that you do as well…..

]]> By: Johny candy http://www.artlurker.com/2010/04/jet-set-saturdays-justin-beal-and-martin-kersels-at-acme/comment-page-1/#comment-10016 Johny candy Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:42:23 +0000 http://www.artlurker.com/?p=4079#comment-10016 Where is my comment, I don't believe I used profanity.. Where is my comment, I don’t believe I used profanity..

]]> By: Johny Candy http://www.artlurker.com/2010/04/jet-set-saturdays-justin-beal-and-martin-kersels-at-acme/comment-page-1/#comment-10010 Johny Candy Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:39:18 +0000 http://www.artlurker.com/?p=4079#comment-10010 It is reviews like these that reaffirm my belief that this work is almost purely academic and so literal that it eradicates any mystery and or soul that could save it from itself. Not up for debate is its acute density, present throughout much of Beal's work. However I would say that is exactly that which degrades its integrity. Visually Beal employs a bland and familiar aesthetic accompanied by a loose brand of crassness to make a calculated argument, but this combination somehow lacks the power to transcend his literal equation. Unless you are enthralled by the ideas found in the texts he just read there is little more to sink your teeth into. They almost become clever visual manifestations of book reports dealing with formalism and architecture. For myself these pieces are less like "hot sex on a platter " and more like wet dreams for those interested in unwrapping seemingly impenetrable work that merely offers some reflexive or pensive emotion. While Eroticism is in the eye of the beholder, this sort of fetishism would seemingly be found in the reference section of your local library, a hot hot house indeed. What I feel Beal is most adept at is creating a critical romance between his ideas and purveying his "kouros" persona and highly polished education, while lighting up the hot buttons of a certain breed of intellectually astute critics. We live in a time of such profound transition and omnipresent stimuli I personally find Beal's work dull and its methods about as ancient as the language used to described it. Emblematic of an entire chapter of the art world, stuck like Narcissus in a Plexiglas river of itself. It is reviews like these that reaffirm my belief that this work is almost purely academic and so literal that it eradicates any mystery and or soul that could save it from itself. Not up for debate is its acute density, present throughout much of Beal’s work. However I would say that is exactly that which degrades its integrity. Visually Beal employs a bland and familiar aesthetic accompanied by a loose brand of crassness to make a calculated argument, but this combination somehow lacks the power to transcend his literal equation. Unless you are enthralled by the ideas found in the texts he just read there is little more to sink your teeth into. They almost become clever visual manifestations of book reports dealing with formalism and architecture. For myself these pieces are less like “hot sex on a platter ” and more like wet dreams for those interested in unwrapping seemingly impenetrable work that merely offers some reflexive or pensive emotion. While Eroticism is in the eye of the beholder, this sort of fetishism would seemingly be found in the reference section of your local library, a hot hot house indeed.

What I feel Beal is most adept at is creating a critical romance between his ideas and purveying his “kouros” persona and highly polished education, while lighting up the hot buttons of a certain breed of intellectually astute critics. We live in a time of such profound transition and omnipresent stimuli I personally find Beal’s work dull and its methods about as ancient as the language used to described it. Emblematic of an entire chapter of the art world, stuck like Narcissus in a Plexiglas river of itself.

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