Spring
The nonagenarian Katz is an acquired taste. His bold colouring and reduced forms are perfect for sore American eyes trained on advertising and pop art. To them, such habitual simplicity might look like an unpretentious virtue.
Should flower arrangements need such an initiation? Katz’s pictures of willow and daffodils are pleasant but trivial. The man’s a legend, granted – think Hockney and his later landscapes – but this emperor’s clothes have moth holes.
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Interiors
For the abundance of material, there simply aren’t enough ideas in the exhibition to go around these Mayfair interiors.
Trilogy: Then…
Repetition and framing are photography’s greatest tricks.
Soft Ground
It’s stressful enough to fuck in the forest for fear of passers-by or the police; imagine having to also look out for curators.
Twilight at the Earth’s Crust
Mad Max meets Waterworld in a crossover sequel conceived by a film studio’s marketing department.
Retrospective
Rhis show is the kompromat in an art generation’s archive.
The Book of Equators
Chong was probably reading some epic while painting his Equator pictures.
