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into the photographic world by well' was the comment by staff This molecular like wire grid rises
dipping its aesthetic toe into the member Penelope Marcus, 'we keep gradually and vertically from the
twentieth century with the exhibition running out of printed matter'. But centre, and supports away from the
'The Photography of Paul Nash'. despite the enthusiasm shown by the ground the other components. Its
Paul Nash worked regularly with viewers the Tate unfortunately has no thinness contrasts dramatically with
a camera from 1930, when he was 41, future plans for forthcoming exhibits the laminated wood and aluminium
until his death in 1946. In September of either artists and their photography forms suspended in the mid-area
1931 he went to the United States as or of established photographers and before it meets the inert outer skin,
British representative on the panel of their work. the steel plate. The sculpture's centre
judges for the Carnegie International The Photographers Gallery recently is the becoming of being, emphasized
Art Exhibition. His wife gave him a showed an exhibition of 'Modern and by the lack of material substance. The
camera for the occasion, a simple Experimental Colour Photography' by intermediate wooden fan shapes cut
No 1 A pocket Kodak Series 2, the only six photographers. The work was at right angles the grid that supports
camera he ever owned. rather surrealistic, pictures within them and each is split, being
Nash was not mechanically minded, pictures, isolated figures but mixed. composed of two halves. This duality
nor curious about the technical side of Till 18 August the gallery is in their make-up emphasizes their
photography. He regarded his camera exhibiting 'Spectre of Violence', point of being between the centre
as the tool of his imagination and his work by Leonard Freed recently done void and outside corporeality. They
work advanced through trial and error. for the Sunday Times in New York. are in the act of being. A flurry of
This is shown in the exhibition by the It raises both the problem of violence movement spreads then into the
varied quality and the chronological in the cities and the problem of choice unshielded segments of the sculpture,
order of the prints, but it is less faced by photographers in such their ends aggressively pinch at the
evident in the book, published by the assignments. There is also work by open space yet never close it.
Tate, 'Paul Nash's Photographs: four contemporary photographers Their wooden texture causes the
Document and Image' introduced by from Lithuania. The photographs of substance of these semi-surreal
Andrew Causey. 100 monochrome Glen Koyama will be exhibited from shapes to be identified as present
illustrations, at £1.25 (paper back) 30 July to 30 August, and Caj now, the configuration that this 'stuff'
and £1.80 (hard back). The lack of Bremer, a reportage photogapher takes leads us to think differently
technical ability or a larger camera from Finland, has an exhibition however. They suggest forms too
does not inhibit one from seeing from 21 August to 8 September. elusive to fix, they are still becoming.
possible parallels with Edward Ralph Gibson has just published a The third state, the steel plates hang
Weston and Ansel Adams. The new book called 'Deja-Vu' (soft in suspended animation. Here no
simplicity of his subjects shows a cover). Fine quality, strong pictures change is possible, all movement has
child-like curiosity that belies the and up-to-date feeling of 1940's ceased, we have reached the
graphic sophistication. style photographs. terminators. q
From the late thirties his use of The Tryon Gallery recently had BARRY MARTIN
photography fulfilled a practical an exhibition of photographs from
Phillip King
need when his asthma began to Mirella Riccardi's work for her book
Untitled 1973
prohibit him from prolonged periods 'Vanishing Africa'. Ll
Steel, aluminium, wood
outdoors, but his photographs were TONY HYDE 5ft. 6in. x 12ft. x 12ft. NEWS &
never just documents. Textures
shapes and lighting are always from the centre. This central spread of
present. Geometric shapes in the redness is, as in When the Birds Began NOTES
beginning, then textures and lastly NEW to Sing, indicative of a fundamental
landscapes. theme in the artist's ideology. London Art Summer
Nash was later interested in In Ghengis Khan the opening and Summer Studio at the ICA is a
exhibiting his watercolours and the WORK splitting of the cone, with its inner kaleidoscope of the arts in London
related photographs together ; he structural substance spilling out, led to of the last five years.
proposed for this for the War Artists' Phillip King's most recent sculpture is speculation of what the inner world
Exhibition at the National Gallery in an important work. There are few was like. This recent sculpture reveals Pioneers of Modern Sculpture, at the
1940. Lord Clark wrote to Nash (22 contemporary art pieces that can be something of how this could be. The Hayward from 20 July to
August, 1940) from the Ministry of credited with this distinction. It latent symbolism inherent in it and 23 September, covers the years
Information : 'Dickey tells me you commits its viewer to a high plane of suggested by the act of splitting, 1890-1918, and shows the influence
brought to show him on Friday some both cognitive and spiritual conjures those realms of psychical of Rodin and the reaction against
watercolours of aeroplanes which awareness, and exerts its corporeality interference or even providential him.
you would like to have exhibited with in an undiminished way. atonement that give conditions a
the photographs taken by yourself on The importance lies in its synthesis, meaning beyond the merely Summer at the Serpentine. Group
which they are based. for it is the coming together in a calculated. Metaphysical questions exhibitions of young artists will be
'I am sure I will like both the balanced way of several themes. concerning the origin and density of shown at the Serpentine Gallery,
drawings and the photographs, and I These have till now been hinted at in matter; its nature and creator, arise Kensington Gardens; painting,
am much interested in the idea of different degrees. Some of the by the bagful. These are stimulated by through 22 July; photography,
showing the two together, but I am Surrealism found in Ghengis Khan the concentrated and forceful nature 28 July to 19 August; graphics,
quite certain that from the public for example makes its return here. The of the sculpture's presence. Primal 8-30 September.
point of view it would be a great oscillations of enclosed conical force, the stuff that archetypal images
mistake to do so. Some day an art curved space as in When the Birds are made from, oozes forward with At the V & A: drawings, textiles and
critic of authority must break down Began to Sing led to thought patterns alarming insistency. The sculpture wallpapers from the Cooper-Hewitt
the public distinction between art and involving geometry and makes visible those ideas that all of us Collection, New York. Through
photography, but God forbid that the non-Euclidean ideas of curved space share about the unknown cosmic 12 August.
Ministry of Information should be the amongst others, and the essentials terror I And yet, it is not large, about
first to try and do this, especially learnt from composing with six feet high and fourteen across. At Holland Parkthrough 15 July: an
as the people who come to see the asymmetrical linear open structures, as Three radial blocks move away from exhibition of works by the Spanish
War Artist Exhibition are usually very in Dunstable Reel for example, make the centre, creating quiet interstices sculptor Angel Orensanz.
simple and have come primarily for their important play in the trilogy of between and terminating in vertically
non-aesthetic motives. Can't you events created within this work. hanging steel sheets. These Gilbert and George will have a public
imagine the indignant letters we The sculpture spreads out from an effectively stop any further action. view of 'Reclining Drunk', an edition
would get, and the flood of requests implied centre and sits squarely its They shield the sculpture from outside of 200 ash trays and collapsed bottle
from photographers of the baser sort ground. Its painted steel plates and influence and hold in its lateral sculptures, at Nigel Greenwood from
that their work should be shown, mesh create a cold and calculated spread. Long curving sine waves flow 16 to 21 July. (In August they will
too ?' effect on the outside, with the into and out of the central void, bring their singing sculpture
Success after 33 years has not been laminated inner wood circle creating around it a series of enclosed 'Underneath the Arches' and
in vain. 'The exhibition has done too countering with a warmth and glow and exposed packets of space. charcoal shrubbery drawings to
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