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John Currin. (Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City)

Artforum International | May 1, 1994 | Copyright

ANDREA ROSEN GALLERY

John Currin's work makes Lucian Freud's "penetrating" portraits seem wretchedly old-fashioned, pedantic. Is Currin out to rescue the arguably lapsed genre of portraiture from an imminent fade-out? Or is the model of portraiture paraded before us like some stale cliche, inviting the kind of wholesale derision that may lead to the implosion of a historical convention? He may want it both ways. Admittedly, it has always been unclear whether Currin's earlier pictures of girls or young women make reference to "actual" people in the world, or are fanciful…

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