Candid Lust

I. Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih’s exhibition of paintings mocks intellectualism. Unlike Frida Kahlo, she takes painting lightly.

October 29, 2000

Extending without proportion, a pair of ocher breasts looks elastic like a rubber toy or taffy. We may feel frightened and horrified upon first seeing this, but then we will smile: upon each breast is a yellow and light-green watch. The title is unusual: Wow, Bologna. A pair of towers she saw in this Italian city must have inspired the artist.

A double association: breasts are the image of towers, hands or just any object. The same is true of ge

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