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\"books-6\"<\/a>

Errata Corrige #2234<\/i>, 2013, vintage book, inks, nails on wood panel.<\/p><\/div>\n

In a new show at Rome\u2019s Sara Zarin Gallery<\/a>, the Russian-born artist Ekaterina Panikanova presents work composed of old books, which she arranges into a kind of jigsaw puzzle of palimpsests. (We\u2019ve featured her<\/a> on the\u00a0Daily<\/em> before.) \u201cPaper, cards, and books have a fundamental value in my work,\u201d she says. \u201cI see them as a body of rules, dogmas, traditions, religious beliefs, and scientific discoveries, which, right or wrong for their time, human beings had put in cages.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCrepuscoli (Twilight)<\/a>\u201d is on display through February 7. When Panikanova looks at \u201cthe rules of the home [and] education,\u201d she\u2019s said, she sees only \u201ceventual imprisonment.\u201d Accordingly, in this new show she hangs her spreads in a spare room furnished with a spartan table, an uninviting couch, and pairs of shoes, among other housewifely touches. The ersatz domestic setting makes her work seem freighted with fatalism, and imagery that could be twee\u2014cakes, rabbits, antlers\u2014instead appears deeply troubled. I say that, of course, as a compliment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can see more of Panikanova\u2019s work at Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"Panikanova_032\"<\/a>

Installation view<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Panikanova_012\"<\/a>

Pars particularis<\/i>, 2014, books, wood, nails, ink, acrylic.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Panikanova_072\"<\/a>

Box n\u00b088<\/i>, 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n

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