Under the Knife
...or at least I will be, in a far less dramatic and more mundane manner than the gentleman discussed below, tomorrow (for similar reasons to last time). Surrogate grapes to the usual address.
posted by owen hatherley at 11:32 pm
7 Comments:
hope it goes well, I'm sure it will :)
Heal well, comrade. And nice choice of Ballardian image. I will stand up for that film to the end.
Does a new exhibition by George Shaw count as surrogate grapes?
http://www.wilkinsongallery.com/ex09_georgeshaw.php?0
Shaw (like the early Boyd & Evans) is an artist I would love to see you write about. All three of them inhabit a terrain somewhere between this blog and K-Punk's.
From a short Channel 4 article on GS's work:
"'As a kid, I wanted something to happen,' says George Shaw.
Well, who didn't? But Shaw has made this feeling his muse. He's become famous for painting the Tile Hill estate in Coventry where he grew up in the 70s: its houses, paths, garages and woods. He paints with an intensity that has critics comparing him to Edward Hopper and the German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich. And he does it all with Humbrol enamels – the same shiny paints he used as a boy on his Airfix models. (...)"
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/A/art_show/george_shaw/index.html
Anyway: Gute Besserung.
Hope all goes well!
He paints with an intensity that has critics comparing him to Edward Hopper and the German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich. And he does it all with Humbrol enamels – the same shiny paints he used as a boy on his Airfix models. (...)"
Nothing against the article, but I disagree with a couple of points to some extenct. I’m probably a minority though, lol. Thanks for sharing.
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You have exceeded all my expectations (impossibly tattered phrase, but it's true)
excellent stuff!
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