Stet? Hah!

In the exhibit “The Corrections,” artist Charles Gute takes text-based art from the '60s and '70s and copyedits it, which is another way of saying he’s a genius. He presents the new pieces, with vicious red-pen marks and stern notes in the margins, as his own unique, error-free art. In one, Correcting Barry, he appropriately finds issue with the repeated word “It,” circles all five, and scribbles “Ambiguous pronoun referent — please be more specific” along the bottom. It’s much better. (Barry was a fool.) Gute has a long history of witty text-based pieces, and as with most conceptual art work, they often get a giggle if not a stymied blank stare. “The Corrections,” however, offers perfectly understood chunks of brilliance, with the artist subtly damning, while simultaneously honoring, his conceptual art heirs in the most literal way possible: by fixing them. “The Corrections” appears in conjunction with John Slepian’s "The Phenomenology of Painting" and work by Stephanie Syjuco.

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A walk-through discussion of “The Corrections” with Gute starts at 11 a.m.
April 10-May 15, 2010