I'm not sure how much counterbalancing can be achieved with a group of 25 canvases, of which 17 date from the last decade, given the complexity of the argument.
I have in mind the immense, eerie body of work — more than three hundred and forty large canvases, of which only several dozen have been shown — that de Kooning produced while, by all accounts, he was losing his mind to Alzheimer's.
Both of these women's bodies act as canvases on which are illustrated the cultural and regulatory constructions of the female body within their societies and religion.
Art historians fancy that Cubism was a series of conceptual experiments such as those that allowed Einstein to open up the fourth dimension; in fact, Danchev insists: 'Cubism was fun or it was nothing.' The orderly chaos of the canvases on which Braque and Picasso worked during those early years was a product of their pranks.
Mr. Wilson's set and lighting designs employ his trademark abstractions: stage-filling backdrops, like immense Mark Rothko canvases, on which shades of blue, gray and cream light mingle; rectangular beams, illuminated with neon-white light, that slowly jut into place from above and below.
Along with two of the faded, drippy paintings diagramming race horse genealogies that he is known for, this English artist presents a pair of large, pale canvases on which he has neatly printed the names of all the men who carried out the revolution in Cuba 41 years ago.
We spoke of a young artist, Jacob Kassay, a twenty-seven-year-old painter of silvery canvases, one of which was on display in Bermondsey.
But as a painter he was slow and meticulous, completing only a few canvases, most of which are in Italy.
His companion, Jim Anderson, has lived there for 30 years, and has used the airy space to paint abstract canvases, some of which still decorate the white walls.
For the last twenty or so years, the British artist has accumulated entire universes on his canvases, some of which almost reach a museum ceiling.
"I just wanted to make a good painting," he said, a bit embarrassed by all the to-do attached to his work, which consists mainly of hauntingly murky, mirrorlike silver canvases, several of which were hanging on the studio walls.
