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Fantasy and imagined worlds at New York two galleries
There are currently two New York exhibitions displayed at the AXA Gallery and the Richard Feigen gallery: "Imagined Worlds: Willful Invention and the Printed Image" and the "Third Eye: Fantasies, Dreams and Visions". Both shows feature fairies and monsters, dream planets and vegetation run amok. The first one is all about the imagined places - some are renderings of cities that existed once upon a time, though they draw on life experience, others invent places no one has ever seen. "Third Eye," at the Feigen gallery, is a more idiosyncratic assortment of grotesqueries, drawing out thematic similarities between the unlikeliest artists. Such disparate characters as Eva Hesse, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Victor Hugo and Jean Dubuffet have all used eyes, heavily ringed with dark shadows, to signify the depths of loneliness and despair.
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