If art is socially mediated irrationality – if the esthetic is the psychotic inside-out, and the pleasure art gives masks its emotional menace – then Gironcoli has stretched our sense of irrationality to a new limit, and in the process, has renewed our sense of art´s stylistic and expressive possibilities. Increasingly, the best art is freshly unnameable, unclassifiable, and absurd despite the fact that its sources may be traceable. Gironcoli shows us that the past does not have to be dealt with in an ironic way (as though that alone made it of interest), but that it can still provide the bounty out of which a delectable if insidiously poisonous meal of art can be prepared. But art is also a mithridate where the poison of the irrational is concerned. Consuming it through art, one builds up a certain tolerance for it, enough of a tolerance so that one will not be destroyed by it. Donald Kuspit, Artforum, 1992