{"id":42663,"date":"2021-01-16T14:17:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T19:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=42663"},"modified":"2021-01-16T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T19:17:30","slug":"phil-cote-absolute-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2021\/01\/16\/phil-cote-absolute-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"~PHIL COTE . . &#8216;ABSOLUTE REALITY&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHIL COTE . .  &#8216;ALMOST EVERYTHING&#8217;<br \/>\nup thru . . FEB 13, 2021<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hesseflatow.com\/\">HESSE FLATOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>more painterly, than it seems on first impression,<br \/>\nyes . . a Bic lighter can be indeed \/  a profound meditation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Cote-Bic-lighter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Cote-Bic-lighter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"551\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Cote-Bic-lighter.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Cote-Bic-lighter-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ndetail,<br \/>\nPHIL COTE, &#8216; Absolute Reality&#8217;, 2019.<br \/>\noil on canvas \/ 32 x 32 in.<br \/>\nimage via Instagram @paintco<\/p>\n<p>Phil . .  writes of this painting on his IG page:<br \/>\n&#8220;I like thinking about the moment at a concert when everyone puts their lighters (or nowadays phones)<br \/>\nin the air, in a collective expression of euphoric appreciation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking in no order: plastic vs glass \/ expressionism vs realism \/ flame vs spark \/ euphoria crowd vs vandalism riot \/<br \/>\nchange vs entropy &#038; finally,  when I first came to stay in NYC, seeing Gerhard Richter candle paintings in the early 80s, and thinking: this guy is going to be very famous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHIL COTE . . &#8216;ALMOST EVERYTHING&#8217; up thru . . FEB 13, 2021 HESSE FLATOW more painterly, than it seems on first impression, yes . . a Bic lighter can be indeed \/ a profound meditation. detail, PHIL COTE, &#8216; Absolute Reality&#8217;, 2019. oil on canvas \/ 32 x 32 in. image via Instagram @paintco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42665,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42663\/revisions\/42665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}