Reconfiguring Barry Le Va: deceptively modest, occasionally violent, always challenging, the concept-driven oeuvre of Barry Le Va was fully considered in a four-decade retrospective at the Philadelphia ICA.(Institute of Contemporary Art)(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)

From: Art in America | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Princenthal, Nancy | Copyright information

In an opening-day walk-through of the big. densely installed and (in both senses) straining survey of his work at the ICA in Philadelphia. Barry Le Va offered this insight: "Ultimately it becomes a question of, can you tell the difference between order and disorder?" It's a very good question. And like most Conceptualist-type puzzles, it suggests others: Is distinguishing order from its opposite a primary problem for Le Va or an ancillary one, tangent to concerns with symbolic cont...

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