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“You have to start from somewhere, and you start from the subject which gradually, if the thing works at all, withers away and leaves this residue which we call reality.”
—Francis Bacon, Interview with David Sylvester, 1982–1984
“We dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig from early morn ‘til night
We dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig up everything in sight.”
—Frank E. Churchill, Heigh Ho
Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce “Adverb High Command,” Xie Nanxing’s first exhibition with the gallery and his first solo show in New York, on view from May 6 until June 25. Nanxing will present two recent bodies …