Clara Kim April 15, 1998

100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel Gallery Three: The Natural, The Social, and The Technological In Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim's Rumble Young Man Rumble (Version #2) (1993), behind you and across Gallery 3, the artists used a prefabricated punching bag and stenciled it with a quote by boxer Muhammad Ali. The text wrapsaround the bag so the viewer must walk around it in a dizzying spiral to read the complete message.

"I think what these artists are attacking is this notion that art should be something that is ephemeral, that is metaphoric, that it's something that distances you from the object. It's not about you trying to figure out what this work is about; but instead, I think what these artists are doing with this kind of blatant aesthetics is giving it to you, without having to second guess. There is an aesthetics; it's not to say there isn't an aesthetics tied to it. But there's something more driven in these works, and I think they have an agenda, and they want to express that and communicate it as blatantly as possible."

Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim RUMBLE YOUNG MAN RUMBLE (VERSION #2)  1993