Ryan Taber: Mark Moore Gallery.
From: Artforum International
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Date: 11/1/2006
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Author: Miles, Christopher
Within the fluidly baroque form of one small sculpture, a cast-plastic jellyfish inspired by the illustrations of nineteenth-century naturalist Ernst Haeckel appears to arise from or descend onto a miniature, hand-hewn wooden replica of a 1901 Art Nouveau music stand by Alexander-Louis-Marie Charpentier. Snarled among the invertebrate's tentacles is the wreckage of a biplane, which turns out to be that of the Italian literary figure Gabriele D'Annunzio, a World War I hero and a ...
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