P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center: P.S.1 Newspaper 2007 Fall: Kathe Burkhart

2007 Fall

Kathe Burkhart

This article refers to the P.S.1 exhibition Kathe Burkhart

Kathe Burkhart

Mindfuck: from the Liz Taylor Series (The VIPS)

1988

Acrylic, composition leaf, mirror tile on canvas

82 x 96”

Courtesy of the artist, Alexander Gray Associates and Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam

Dividing her time between New York and Amsterdam, Kathe Burkhart’s exhibition includes paintings from her ongoing Liz Taylor Series, new photographs of nude beach scenes, and a set of haikus spelled out in Dutch chocolate. Burkhart’s haikus are a curious creation. The letters refer to the Dutch annual tradition of Sinterklass day (December 5), in which children put their shoes out before going to sleep with the expectation of a visit from Sinterklass. In the morning their shoes are filled with chocolate letters representing their initials. These chocolates, as well as poems, are exchanged between adults and children during the Christmas season.

This is how to tell

Who really loves you, and who

Is just using you.

Please tell me how much

longer this pleasure will last

before it turns to shit.

Yes is the new no.

No sex is the new sex. Men

are the new women.

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2007 Fall

Kathe Burkhart

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