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Though at first David Rhodes’s paintings appear to be reductive, repetitive and formulaic, with time one may come to the conclusion that his works are refreshingly deceptive in that he makes paintings that inform thought rather than ones that illustrate soundbites, or are displays of subjectivity and taste.
Late in life and suffering from cataracts, the French painter took his painting to gestural, non-figurative extremes
Alberto Biasi is fond of telling a story to characterise the nature of his work. It’s 1988 and a group of schoolkids is visiting....
Alberto Biasi is fond of telling a story to characterise the nature of his work. It’s 1988 and a group of schoolkids is visiting....
A RECURRENT SCENE IN SCI-FI movies shows the earth withdrawing from the spacecraft until it becomes a horizon, a beachball, a grapefruit, a golf ball, a star. With the changes in scale, responses slide from the particular to the general. The individual is replaced by the race and we are a pushover for the race—a mortal biped, or a tangle of them spread out below like a rug. From a certain height people are generally good. Vertical distance encourages this generosity. Horizontality doesn’t seem to have the same moral virtue. Far away figures may be approaching and we anticipate the insecuri...