A COLUMBIAN NECKLACE FOR YOU

"With its better-defined gallery spaces, the Italian pavilion is kinder to painting. Richard Tuttle's shy little waferboard cutouts work very nicely in a room of their own. Ed Ruscha has a long wall with nine paintings based on brief obliterated texts. The original B-movie tough guy lines ("It's Payback Time", "A Colombian Necklace for You") can be read on the labels, but in the paintings the words have been distributed in several rows and covered by colored bars and rectangles. These forms look like blank word tapes from old telegrams, like the Suprematist compositions of Malevich, like the bars which mask faces and body parts on porn posters - take your pick". (M.E. Vetrocq, op.cit, p. 71)