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Brice Marden.

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
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BRICE MARDEN

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

The surest way to spot a bullshitter in an art museum is to look for someone standing roughly three feet away from an art object, sliding their hands alternately back and forth, and using phrases like "give and take" or talking about how one part or another "pops." Certainly, that has been my go-to shorthand when confronted by a work about which I have utterly nothing to say, and no desire to say it. So imagine my surprise when, while touring the Brice Marden retrospective at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum, entitled Plane Image (a truer homonym was never uttered), I came across a video in which Marden and curator Gary Garrels are standing roughly three feet away from one of Marden's paintings at MoMA (the show arrived in Berlin from New York, via San Francisco); Marden is sliding...

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