THE ART NEWS PAPER – “I hallucinate what I desire,” Roland Barthes wrote in A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, his 1977 book of literary ruminations on the conditions of intimacy. That notion of yearning as a creative impulse is at the centre of A Lover’s Discourse, a series of exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum (AAM) that involves six separate month-long presentations juxtaposing pieces by early-career artists with historical works from private collections in Aspen, a community renowned for its high concentration of big-ticket art patrons.
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