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Colin Lanceley: between painting and sculpture

by Robert Hughes

Colin Lanceley is a 27-year-old Australian, but the implies two things: the sculpture is fixed at a definite
cliches of New Holland get no grip on his work. He point in space and hence in one specific relationship to
works in a corner between painting and sculpture. His the painting, and it cannot be walked round-the spec­
wooden constructions are 3-dimensional, but they don't tator's viewpoint is determined for him in advance.
suggest sculptural mass; they are too open and fluid (This is essentially a Baroque idea). The construction
for that. and the painting are linked firstly by means of colour,
The more recent ones, Laocoon for instance, appear and secondly by the play of shadows cast on the flat
to grow into and out of paintings on the wall. This painted surface by the gesticulating wooden forms.
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Laocoon 1966
Painted wood
78 X 63 in.

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