Monday, February 12, 2024

Visual Relics (1987-1990)

Anne Zahalka
The Cleaner
1987
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Anne Zahalka
The Cook
1987
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Michael Kenna
Power Station Study 31, Ratcliffe (Nottinghamshire, England)
1987
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Ralph Gibson
Untitled
1987
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection,Washington DC

Graeme Hare
Untitled
1987
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Rose Farrell and George Parkin
Annunciation
1988
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Rose Farrell and George Parkin
St Jerome in Penitence
1988
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

George Woodman
Untitled
1988
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Andrea Modica
Oneonta, NY
1988
platinum-palladium print
Denver Art Museum

Cindy Sherman
Untitled
1988
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Carl Pope
Untitled
1989
gelatin silver print
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Thomas Struth
Louvre II
1989
C-print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

David Levinthal
Untitled
(series, Wild West)
1989
Polaroid dye diffusion transfer color print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Barbara Bosworth
Spot where an Elk slept, Yellowstone National Park
1989
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Jonathan Bailey
Angel holding Christ (Funerary Statue)
Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico

1990
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

John Baldessari
Two Compositions
1990
C-prints with added paint
Albright-Knox-Art-Gallery-Buffalo-New-York

"But I, great wife of Jove – who left no thing
undared, who tried all ways in wretchedness –
am beaten by Aeneas. If my power 
is not enough, I shall not hesitate
to plead for more, from anywhere; if I
cannot bend High Ones, then I shall move hell.
I cannot keep him from the Latin kingdoms:
so be it, let Lavinia be his wife,
as fates have fixed. But I can still hold off
that moment and delay these great events,
can still strike down the nations of both kings.
Then let the son and father-in-law pay
for peace with their own peoples' death. Virgin,
your dowry will be Latin blood and Trojan,
your bridal matron is to be Bellona." 

– Juno meditates further harm, from Book VII of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)