Darren Campion on Martin Schoeller

 

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Darren Campion: “Where Martin Schoeller seems to excel is in the disclosure of reptilian celebrity, the hollow, endless need. It remains difficult to tell though if this is genuinely a facet of his work or a value of that uniquely modern state, which allows whole identities to become volatile, something merely to be traded upon, so that the supposed ‘disclosure’ we see in this work, the firm impression of presence, is in itself just another part of the ruse.” Read the rest here.