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February 14, 2010
The current group show at Zach Feuer Gallery, Spontaneous Generation, features a painting by Kevin Zucker, which includes transfers of a curated selection of Google SketchUp 3D models categorized under the keywords, "abstract sculpture." Among these digital drawings is a recreation of a toppled proto-Minimalist Brancusi Endless Column, which occupies a space of competing grids: the illusion-oriented orthogonals of a one-point perspective system and a decidedly two-dimensional grid of registration marks, suggesting not only graph paper but the structures of several computer programs.  Through Zucker's signature transfer process, the surfaces of the rendered sculptures degrade, suggesting the impending decrepitude of the utopian aspirations of our digital age, like those of any other, including Brancusi's and Brunelleschi's.  In his interview for Museo, conducted almost a decade ago during our Columbia days and recently re-released, Zucker addresses many issues that remain pertinent in his practice today.
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