PALMY DAYS
by Walter Robinson
"Gallery programs are either esthetic or intellectual. Mine is esthetic," said
Bernd Lausberg, a tall and articulate art dealer who since 2002 has had galleries in both Düsseldorf and Toronto. He favors bright color abstractions by artists I’ve never heard of (
Robert Schaberl,
Regine Schumann) and also has sculptures of pets copied from Old Master paintings and laboriously assembled from slivers of bright cut glass (an orange figure of a lynx, from a work by
Albrect Dürer, was $26,500). I thought that the artist, a young woman named
Marta Klonowska, must have a lot of little cuts on her fingers.
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