IAN BREAKWELL : IMPORTANT WORKS FROM THE 60'S AND 70's

21 Jan-21 Feb 2015

Overview

Ten years after his death in 2005, Anthony Reynolds Gallery is presenting a selection of major works from the first two decades of Breakwell’s career. The exhibition includes the most comprehensive expression of Breakwell’s major diary pieces, The 1974 Diary. This massive work has not been seen complete in London since his ICA exhibition in 1977. The show also includes important and rarely seen works from the 60’s, among them the apparently gruesome diptych, The Kill (1969) and the remarkable Description of a Picture (1968) which is a long-distance forerunner of countless descriptive ‘word pictures’ of more recent years. Further exhibits include two rare studies for the Walking Man Diary of 1975-78 (Tate Collection), Buffet Car News (1967), a unique large-scale work derived from an early performance piece and a series of three sexually challenging collages from 1971.