Vincent Desiderio: Pitiless Pathology

Vincent Desiderio, Window, 2010, oil and mixed media on board, 48 x 48 inches, (
Vincent Desiderio, Window, 2010, oil and mixed media on board, 48 x 48 inches, (courtesy: Marlborough Galleries, New York)

Donald Kuspit reviews the recent exhibition Vincent Desiderio at Marlborough Chelsea, New York.

Kuspit writes: "Narrative, drama, the indecent human story... returns with an ironical vengeance in Vincent Desiderio's paintings... Even as Desiderio attempts to achieve a new modern classicism... he cannot help but suggest the black shadow that modernism has cast over art."