American artist, born in 1982, known for dream-like drawings and paintings sometimes described as outsider or faux-outsider art; shown at Metro Pictures and Matthew Marks in New York and Hiromi Yoshii in Tokyo.
So many textures and colors . . . if Zéro de conduite is a Dadaist masterpiece and The Scarlet Empress is expressionism on film, Lola is pure Technicolor pop art, and one of the best late Fassbinder films.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Keegan McHargue, the entry for Lola.
If for no other reason (and there are a lot of other reasons!), Sweet Movie is worth a watch just to see the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl playing the role of a man-baby being tickled until he . . .
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Keegan McHargue, the entry for Sweet Movie.
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