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HYLAND eclectic selection: the furniture designer Pierre Chareau is represented, as is Kandinsky, Lichtenstein (a painter who incorporates texts, or rather, exclamations), Lucien Freud, Man Ray and Max Ernst. One of the beauties of this exhibition is that it provokes in the viewer a wealth of associations. Each of us, or, sadly, perhaps, only some of us, these days, possess a library, and what is in it and what is not is telling. Kang's project could proceed ad infinitum, if he chose only to paint portraits of other people's libraries. What no painting or photograph of a library can reveal, however, is which books have been read and which ones have not. I think of Walter Benjamin's famous essay, "Unpacking My Library," the lead essay in the book Illuminations, which I carried around for years, unread. As I write this review, I have a downloaded copy of the essay on my table and I will read it once these words are finished.

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