By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
Perhaps the finest recent portrait of an absence—“Buco Vuoto,” by the Italian artist Argento Rumoroso—is now to be seen at the Greenback Gallery, where Professor Flinders Perkins is holding his annual exhibition of works that do not and can never exist. All the works here are identical to one another—the Rumoroso cannot be meaningfully distinguished from a canvas by the German painter Lotte Silber or a sculpture by the Finnish ironworker Melissa Hopea, even by the most trained eye—and all were found last winter by Perkins and the students of the Berke School on their yearly tour of Europe, which none of them took.
Perhaps the finest recent portrait of an absence—“Buco Vuoto,” by the Italian artist Argento Rumoroso—is now to be seen at the Greenback Gallery, where Professor Flinders Perkins is holding his annual exhibition of works that do not and can never exist. All the works here are identical to one another—the Rumoroso cannot be meaningfully distinguished from a canvas by the German painter Lotte Silber or a sculpture by the Finnish ironworker Melissa Hopea, even by the most trained eye—and all were found last winter by Perkins and the students of the Berke School on their yearly tour of Europe, which none of them took.
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