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From: art reviews
Category: Art
Date: 04 April 2006
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I liked the spirit of this show, to show different generations,famous, young and venerated. In Martin we see graph paper, or music scores faintly written, a fairness which must be the terror of any dirty thumbed gallery assistant or art mover. They are very good, beautiful, without tweeness, and intoxicating in their effects of a warm bleak light. Then Celmins, a favourite of the school of hard labour and abstract/cellular/universal school of painting, she has never lived up to the hype in my eyes, and she inspires so much bad painting that I resent her. Finally the young pretender Ewan Gibbs, he transcribes photos of tourist attractions and the like onto graph paper using some kind of painstaking method, they are tedious and the usual stuff you see, all process and flashy realism masquerading as concept. So we have, a show, very much worth looking at, which neatlyish marks the fall of modernism from lovely clear music into echoes, yet more ripples in a stagnant pond.
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