May
31
Phillip Allen: When is a painting more than the sum of its parts?
‘A parallel contrast arises between the dollops of inactive paint on the edges and the paint rendered deliberately in the centre by the artist’s brush – raising the fundamental question, when is a painting more than the sum of its parts?’
- PRESS RELEASE, ‘Phillip Allen, The urgent hang around’, 3 June - 10 July, Bernier/ Eliades Gallery, Athens. <http://www.othercriteria.com/blog/2010/05/>
AW: Um. I don’t know. When its representational? When it refers to something outside of itself? When its good? I give up. What’s the answer?
‘The contemplation of each work as a whole warns against any linear reading and the pitfalls of trusting language to decode image’
AW: Oh.
