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Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Mike Kelley Musee du Louvre, Paris

It's almost a joke: Mike Kelley haunts the basement of the Louvre with videos that "sexualize" examples of nineteenth-century American painting.

Parallel to an exhibition of American paintings, Les Artistes americains et le Louvre, Mike Kelley was invited to create an installation for a temporary exhibition hall located among the medieval foundations of this unbearably famous museum. Kelley chose to work in response to two American paintings that he says he had been drawn to while visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts as a youth. Watson and the Shark (1777), by John Singleton Copley, is a melodramatic sea scene that foregrounds a drowning, naked man who is missing a leg, and an advancing shark with jaw agape. Meanwhile, a group of men on a small raft are attempting to rescue this figure...

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