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They ensnare me' Surreal, enigmatic objects beguile in return of 1966 show

June 20, 2025

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The Guardian

Endulous, scuttling, slapstick, sinister and ribald, Abstract Erotic revisits a moment in 1966 when the young American critic and curator Lucy Lippard brought together the work of three women in New York in a larger show at the Fischbach gallery.

- Adrian Searle

They ensnare me' Surreal, enigmatic objects beguile in return of 1966 show

Endulous, scuttling, slapstick, sinister and ribald, Abstract Erotic revisits a moment in 1966 when the young American critic and curator Lucy Lippard brought together the work of three women in New York in a larger show at the Fischbach gallery. It was titled Eccentric Abstraction, but the eccentrically abstract isn't nearly as sexy as the erotic - yet neither title quite fits the compelling sculptures and little objects, drawings and reliefs by Alice Adams, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois that, even 60 years on, are as alive as ever.

There are fewer than 30 sculptures, reliefs and drawings here, occupying two small rooms. But size isn't everything. One of the delights of this show is to do with scale. Only one work is bigger than we are. Others you could put in your pocket or carry in your arms. The works sit close to the walls, hang from the wall, dangle on wires in front of it, or sit on shelves in a vitrine, jostling in and out of view, emphasising intimacy and proximity. It is a show of close relations, filled with delicate things and enigmatic things and things as incomprehensible as they are beguiling.

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