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From: RS
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 24 November 2003
Kiaer combines paintings and junk to make challenging art. One wonders whether he is saying a Brueghel painting is the same as a dirty old bin, or the other way round. There is a hint of preciousness about the way he paints, which is undermined by the found bits and pieces he assemble round the smallish canvases. There is some underlying context ( architectural/ theoretical) but I can;t be bothered to read press releases to discover the explanation. He had four or five pieces in the sterile Art Now !! room, and they all seemded to be colour coded, a pink one, a gray one etc. The words that come to mind are ascetic aesthetic. Intelligent art is a rarity, but art that looks deliberately clever can be boring. Kiaers work straddles tweeness and being very good, if the paintings had the braveness of the stuff he finds, then it would be the latter.
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