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From: art reviews Category: Art Date: 08 September 2007 Time: 06:04 PM Review: Spectacular gallery. Unspectacular paintings. Tedious enlargements of photos. Half-arsed photorealism. "The paintings of Thoralf Knobloch are a double-edged sword. Working from his own analogue photographs, he scans and prints the images. Some get cropped others remain in tact before the process of painting begins. During this tactile, hands-on stage the artist accentuates certain aspects of the original photo, or chooses to remove others." Sounds like they're trying to justify painting from photos. There's nothing wrong with it. If the paintings don't come out just looking like every other one of these painters. The image, in its banality or mystery, has been so overdone in paintings like this, it has been bled dry, and become a painting cliche, an international style, nothing much from nothing much.