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VILLAGE VOICE, December 26, 1989
Choices
By Vince Aletti
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'Gaudeamus Igitur': The title of this excellent show of male nudes translates
as "Therefore Let Us Rejoice," and sets the celebratory tone.
Classic work by von Gloeden, Muybridge, List, and Platt Lynes is shown
alongside new materials like Jon Cockrell's gemlike Polaroids, Stanley Stellar's
in-your-face tough-guy portraits, and splashy raunch by a Miami pair called
the Bone Boyz. But the most interesting discovery here is Chicagoan Joe
Ziolkowski, whose cool, compelling black-and-whites of muscular men, often
hanging upside down from gravity boots, suggest the psyche and the body
are in equally difficult straits.
Through December 30, Wessel O'Connor Gallery, 580 Broadway, at Prine
Street, 219-9524.
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