{"id":47,"date":"2007-09-26T18:18:49","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T01:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/raymond-pettibon-at-zwirner\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T06:24:33","slug":"raymond-pettibon-at-zwirner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/raymond-pettibon-at-zwirner\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Pettibon at Zwirner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an artist and professor, I try to make the rounds to the Chelsea galleries with each new round of exhibitions.  However, over the years, I&#8217;ve narrowed the number of galleries that I stop through, because there are so many and for the most part I think that most of the work I see in Chelsea is really bad.<\/p>\n<p>One of the galleries that I always try to stop by is <a title=\"David Zwirner\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidzwirner.com\/\">David Zwirner<\/a>, because the work presented there usually reflects my flavor for an ideal combination of content and execution.  I generally see compelling work that is well done.  And the current exhibition by Raymond Pettibon, &#8220;The Big Picture&#8221; is a great example of this.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pettibon1\" alt=\"Pettibon1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pettibon1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pettibon2\" alt=\"Pettibon2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pettibon2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPettibon&#8217;s drawings are beautiful and exciting.  They are the sort of drawings that make one want to draw, because they are full of energy, they tell a story, they pull the viewer in and they are topical.  Through his drawings, Pettibon lays it out, this is the world that we live in and it&#8217;s fucked up.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pettibon3\" alt=\"Pettibon3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pettibon3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn the other hand, Zwirner also shows bad stuff.  Step out of Pettibon&#8217;s Big Picture, down the hall way to Chris Ofili and you&#8217;ll see Modernist junk.  Incredibly boring work with a precious price tag.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pettibon4\" alt=\"Pettibon4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pettibon4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pettibon5\" alt=\"Pettibon5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pettibon5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pettibon6\" alt=\"Pettibon6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pettibon6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pettibon7\" alt=\"Pettibon7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/pettibon7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an artist and professor, I try to make the rounds to the Chelsea galleries with each new round of exhibitions. However, over the years, I&#8217;ve narrowed the number of galleries that I stop through, because there are so many and for the most part I think that most of the work I see in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical_perspectives","category-fine_arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}