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Belgian artist Peter Rogiers titled his first US solo exhibition "Slag-room," using a word that, besides referring to the solidified impurities skimmed off molten metal during smelting, is also Dutch for "whipped cream." Indeed, Rogiers's recent sculpted figures are clotted-looking masses that seem barely to hold their shapes against the forces of gravity and motion, and while plastic was more prevalent than metal in this show, these curious forms suggest creatures that might have crawled from one of Vulcan's crucibles.
