Ratio 3
1447 Stevenson St
415.821.3371
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Jordan Kantor, Untitled (perspective skulls), Courtesy Ratio 3
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Jan 18, 2008 – Mar 1, 2008
Wednesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of three stacked skulls serves as a reminder. But rather than drawing attention to our fleeting existence, his skulls point to the artist's questioning of pictorial truth and historical narrative. While his truncated frames, lens flares, and silhouetted figures make for elusive and perplexing works, it is through the embrace of such uncertainty that Kantor leaves the question of painting's obsolescence looking well bruised.
