SAME MISTAKES TWICE

Raoul De Keyser, Retour 1, 1999. Raoul De Keyser, Come on, play it again nr. 2, 2001. (I believe these were two of the very first De Keyser Paintings I ever saw at David Zwirner in SoHo, 2001). René Daniels, Doorlopend Nar Buiten, 1987. Mary Heilmann, Neo Noir, 1998, and,  The Third Man, 1999 (Installation View). Mary Heilmann, Neo Noir, 1998, and,  The Third Man, 1999. Bernard Piffaretti, Untitled, 1998. Bernard Piffaretti, Untitled, 2005.

I had originally written this down in a note book on 09.04.2006 as an idea for a group show. The show would include paintings that dealt with "doubling" in a number of different ways, either by repetition of gesture, painting the same painting twice, the title of the work (ie. De Keyser's, "Come on, play it again nr. 2"), remaking a work in order to improve on it (in this case which is the better painting?), or translation from study to painting, painting to painting Etc. I like the play on the 50/50 split between artist and gallery that the last Piffaretti proposes. It reads to me a bit like Kippenberger's iheart50% bumpersticker.