by jasperjoffe » Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:46 pm
Bad Painter. Good Sculptor. I loved the lumps, small bronze mountains, of men with their heads in skinny profile. A kind of dimensional head fuck. The paintings looked sub-Bacon, very dated feel, just the same existentialist style applied again and again. The composition static, the figure bang in the middle, the contour lines meaningless. I craved some more sculptures. Interestingly his early paintings aren't great, usually a bad sign when the conventional early stuff by an artist doesn't have a lot going for it, though there are exceptions.