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Work Type:painting
Date of work:1990
Materials:medium: acrylic

support: canvas

Measurements:height: 137 cm

width: 137 cm

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:signs, forest, irony
Technique:painting
Description:
‘He seems very much in line with post-modernist assimilations, very much involved in that. Some irony. Some play with it. But he goes beyond that also. What I was interested in was that he takes this multiple sign and puts close to it, in the same texture, a personal interpretation, and that goes beyond post¬modernist issues. That's why all the paintings are diptychs, because within each diptych there is this statement of the sign and the comment on it. So there is the “Forest” and the real “Forest” (…) Each diptych has it's own logic and is complete.’
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Source:Selectors’ comments. “The British Telecom New Contemporaries 1990-91”, exhibition catalogue, Brighton, 1991
Date of source:1991