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Cao Fei, Serpentine Gallery, London (2020)

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‘For those baptised in the principles of rave, this simultaneous relinquishment and intensification of the body is essential to its core mysticism, a festive and transgressive impulse that severs the bonds of a life fettered to rational imperatives of work and accumulation.’
‘I don’t think you can make art without rules. I think the only way an artist can proceed to make good art, at least significant art, is to obey the rules. But the point is, about the rules, is that they are there to break them if you are going to be a good artist.’
‘Blackness has never been other to me. Therefore, I’ve never felt the need to explain its presence in the work any more than I’ve felt the need to explain my presence in the world, however often I’m asked.’
"I'm not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I'm not a girl anymore and I'm not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say « Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad? » You think I'll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I'll swallow you whole."
Summer mornings (and London just showing off) 💙
Man Ray, with his enigmatic sculpture of a female body entwined with rope, is one of the incredible artists featured in Francesco Bonami’s exhibition at Luxembourg and Co, which invites us to lose ourselves in a time beyond the Second World War when Italy was the centre of artistic exchange - enticing Bacon, Calder, Duchamp, Rauschenberg and Serra to its shores.

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