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Vito Schnabel Gallery, Via Maistra 37, 7500 St. Moritz, Switzerland

Walter Robinson: The Americans

Installation view, Walter Robinson, The Americans, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, 2017

"Robinson’s exploitations of pop imagery succeed by failing the Pictures Generation shibboleth of ironic detachment. In his paintings, the louche sexual glamour of penny dreadfuls and the temptations of booze and junk food are palpable—only the more so, nostalgically, now that the artist is abstemious. Robinson is a Manet of hot babes and a Morandi of McDonald’s French fries and Budweiser beer cans, magnetized by his subjects as he devotes his brush to generic painterly description." – Peter Schjeldahl, "A Man-About-Downtown Gets His Due," The New Yorker, September 26, 2016

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