Caligaris Cure (1983)

The difficulty with which an adult represents his own childhoodlet alone anothersis the running gag of Tom Palazzolos Caligaris Cure In Palazzolos cosmos the kids are even played by grownups hes recast incidents from his Catholic midwestern workingclass boyhood with personnel recruited from the Chicago Art Institute The brazen comicbook miseenscène resembles that of Red Grooms or the Kuchars the tacky offkilter setshouses as ostentatiously ramshackled as Frank Stellas recent sculpture wallpaper like Lucas Samarass quiltshard collages decrepit furniture painted pale pink or dusty greenare a kind of artyidiot Toonerville Trolley Americana J Hoberman Village Voice