Kenny Schachter's Jupiter Show Aims for Aura, Lands Closer to Asbestos

Kenny Schachter's latest show at Jupiter on NYC's Lower East Side kicks off with a nod to Walter Benjamin's 1935 essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. It's a lengthy text about originality, aura and what gets lost when art becomes infinitely replicable. Schachter runs with the idea, kind of, because what he actually delivers is a disjointed spread of glitchy paintings, robo-sculptures and AI-themed one-liners that are Schacter-esque.Some of the work was made with Matr Lab...