Jennifer Wen-Ma
March 19, 2009
Showing at Haunch of Venison on Burlington Gardens is a huge group show. This artist’s piece is a pixilated moving image projected on smoke that issues from the base of the Hindu Buddha’s hand.
I learned just yesterday that the gallery takes its name from the short street/court called Haunch of Venison here in London (they probably first started there). The gallery has a branch in NYC but I am most familiar with them through their branches in Zurich and Berlin. They now occupy the former Museum of Man just behind the Royal Academy. At two stories and a zillion square feet of space they have installed a huge (I would guess 50 artist) show thematically divided to echo the ethnographic spirit of the former museum. My stand-out favorite in this show are two new videos by Bill Viola. Too bad I cannot share Viola’s brilliance and mastery as shown here. I would call him a spiritual genius.
