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Art Kurt Kauper: Everybody Knew that Canadians Were the Best Hockey Players

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Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is all but synonymous with fine art. His blush-inducing, life-sized paintings of naked Cary Grant — meditating, strolling through his palatial residence, or leaning against the mantlepiece — are hilarious masterworks of social-mores provocation. Kauper's new series stars macho pretty-boys Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson, famed hockey players for the Boston Bruins from the '70s, in the buff. Stripped of their team uniforms in four larger-than-life paintings, the hockey icons appear almost unbearably vulnerable in Kauper's immaculate, neo-academic style. Two smaller tondi recall the photographs found on hockey cards, intimate portraits of these icons of masculinity.

– H.G. Masters

Note: Opening reception takes place on Thur, Nov 8 (6-9pm).

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