Rauch unfolds uncanny narratives within canvases – characters’ actions recur in different places at different stages – but frustrates any sense of continuity. Space-time melts, ends abruptly, leads into fragments of familiar-yet-bizarre events; objects and characters materialize from collective memory; unnatural colors give mundane settings a radioactive edge. Artistic crisis could be a uniting theme: in Parabel a noose binds painter and easel while gallows loom nearby, and Entfaltung shows an artist crouching while figures from his imagination overwhelm the canvas. Closes 6/21.
This review will appear in the June 4 issue of The L Magazine.
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