If you can get past the relentless self-absorption of Jerry Saltz and read deeper into his appreciation of Andrea Rosen’s career as a gallery owner, you are reminded first of Saltz’s great talent for explaining the art of some great art and, more to the point, second, what an extraordinary career Rosen had.
Saltz begins with encountering Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work. In this case, four “paper stack pieces” which he initially dismissed as “Minimal and post-minimal gestures and geometries” that “seemed dead, silly, impossible, redundant:Continue Reading