PAINTING OVER (part 2) : a partial survey of painting today

14 Jun-4 Jul 2013

Overview

In 1967 Greenberg was already talking about the periodic death of painting – now it seems to have become paradigmatic; not to say parodic. But at the point that line was taken, art floated free. It’s survived, as Auden put it, ‘in the valley of its saying’ (it’s the line after his famous statement that poetry makes nothing happen.) We have isolated a small patch of contemporary painting, the one we’re most familiar with and that means most to us. All the works have been made in the last few months. Abstract, abstraction, and figuration. An opportunity at least to start thinking about any crisis and whether or not it’s over.