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Grotjahn's Butterfly and Face paintings are ani mated by a dynamic dialectic between gestural representation and formalist structure. The lavishly designed book Circus Circus presents a selection of paintings from Grotjahn's new Circus series as well as a Mask bronze sculp ture. The ambitious polychromatic works combine the geometric rigor of the Butterfly series with the gestural facture of the Face pictures, in which pri mary facial symbols emerge from flowing streams of color. 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Though at first the Butterfly paintings may appear entirely formal and graphic (alluding to modernist painting from Russian Constructivism to Op art), the raylike \"butterfly wings\" are often layered over under-paintings, giving them texture and tonal depth. 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