https://artcritical.com/2014/03/13/david-carrier-on-loren-munk/ Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://artcritical.com/2014/03/13/david-carrier-on-loren-munk/#comment-86064 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:49:29 +0000 https://www.artcritical.com/?p=38635#comment-86064 It isn’t difficult to understand the enormous appeal of Munk’s finely crafted and savvy charts: quite apart from their effortless flow of quite riveting data, somewhere between connoisseurship and trivial pursuit, there is the sheer artistry of his facture, his application and gestalt alike nestled between such unlikely bedfellows as Al Jensen and Peter Davies. His work is art about art, but also works AS art, with a joyful array of color and texture that references a slew of artistic idioms from Outsider Art to conceptual systems art to classic modernisms going back to Stuart Davis and beyond. But there seems to me another level at which his popularity operates. An ever-expanding professional field makes it increasingly difficult for newcomers to feel like “players” in our cozy art culture. The “ah yes” and “I knew that” and “I met him” moments upon scanning these facts and figures adds an extra once of warmth to the impasto, precision and all-overness.

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