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PANAMARENKO.(Henri van Herreweghe)(Brief Article)
Artforum International, March, 2001 by Schwendener, Martha
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The single most common theme in the critical literature on Panamarenko is his failure. This might seem strange, since the Belgian artist has had a long and fairly successful career (at least in Europe; this is his first major US exhibition). But the "f" word doesn't arise in discussions of his career--it relates to how his art objects function.
Panamarenko skirts a long tradition of Belgian invention: Attributed to his countrymen are innovations from French fries to modern plastics, from the saxophone to the internal combustion engine. But ...
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