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News and inventive plans for actual sites. 'confidential' information about the Jeremy
international art scene, is now
There are three categories of entry :
Professional (artists, architects, available in English. Subscription
notes landscape architects, engineers and price is D 1250 (DM125 for artists) Moon
for one year from Art Aktuell,
students), Laymen and
Schoolchildren. The judges of the
'Beyond Painting and Sculpture' competition are Professor Peter 5000 Köln 1, Lindenstrasse 18, Jeremy Moon was killed in a motor
West Germany.
is the title of an Arts Council Shepheard, Hubert Dalwood and accident on November 30, 1973, at
travelling exhibition which includes Ian Nairn. The first selection of The German Institute's premises the age of 39. Hе had his first London
work specially bought for the Arts entries will be made in May and at 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, one-man show at the Rowan Gallery
Council Collection by Richard Cork. those chosen will be asked to London SW7 (formerly Gallery House) in 1963.
Works included in the exhibition are develop their projects further for will be oper ing as a gallery again. Charles Harrison writes : Jeremy
Hamish Fulton's Moonset and showing at the Serpentine Gallery, The interior of the building has yet to Moon's was the first painter's studio
Sunrise, Gilbert and George's 21 September-20 October, and be gutted and rebuilt, so it will most I ever entered on anything like equal
video-tapes In th e Bush and presentation in The Sunday Times. likely not be opening until 1975. The terms —which is to say that neither of
Gordon's Makes us Drunk, films by Further information can be obtained first show planned will be by the us had had much reason or
David Lamelas and David Dye, from the Serpentine Gallery, German auto-destructive artist opportunity to form attitudes towards
Gerald Newman's Piece for2 Lights Kensington Gardens, London W2. Wolf Vostell. each other in advance. It was an
and (4 x 2) Sound Groups, texts апд (Telephone 01 -402 6075.) important occasion for me and the
statements by Keith Arnatt, Victor The Tate Gallery will be opening memory I have of it has stayed good.
Burgin, and John Stezaker, and Christopher Hobbs,Michael two rooms of recently acquired I liked his paintings and I liked
John Hilliard's photopiece 10 runs Parsons, Howard Skempton 'conceptual art' in late January. The talking to him about them, hearing
past a fixed point. The first four and John White will be playing their work will be shown in four phases, him talk. I never heard him talk any
venues are : Leeds City Art Gallery own music at the Purcell Room, each lasting two months. The first bullshit. A painter's priorities must
12 January-3 February, Liverpool South Bank, London on 5 January at will be of work whicn the public will depend on his reading of himself;
Walker Art Gallery 16 February- 7.30 pm. Christopher Hobbs has be acquainted with : three floor pieces he was never anything but serious
17 March, Eastbourne Towner Art played with AIM and the PTC and by Carl Andre, sculptures by Robert about his paintings —or anyone
Gallery 30 March-21 April, and with John White at the Systems Morris and Don Judd, Karel Visser and else's — and I don't think he ever
Bristol Arnolfini 4 Maу-8 June. Exhibition at the Whitechapel last a wall drawing by Sol le Witt. tried to evade the fact that the
year. Parsons and Skempton were decisions and priorities which
John Moores Liverpool co-founders with Cornelius Cardew The Ethical Society are opening a confronted him were moral
Exhibition 9 will this year be of the Scratch Orchestra. gallery in late January at the Conway decisions and moral priorities, and
concentrating on painting'... as the Hall, Red Lion Square, London. They that these were problematic. I think
sponsors feel that it can no longer Art Net, Peter Cook and Cara will be showing young artists that's the strength in his work.
embrace comprehensively all new Montgomery's new venture, has beginning with Coventry students. He thought I had taken some wrong
developments in art'. The competition, now started with financial assistance decisions over the last three years or
with prizes totalling £7000, will be from Alastair McAlpine. The address Modern Mezzotints, an so, and was prepared to talk about
judged by John Moores, Susan is 53 Endell Street, London WC2. exhibition celebrating the renewed them as matters of concern to both of
Grayson, William Feaver and Patrick interest in this medium, will open at us; I always had the feeling that he
George. Sending in days are 25-30 The National Gallery are holding the Oxford University Press (Ely was, as it were, putting his painting at
March and further information can be a poster design competition, House, 37 Dover St, London, W1) on stake when he talked, however
obtained from the Exhibition sponsored by The Financial Times, February 2. Among well-known outlandish the context I or another
Secretary, John Moores Liverpool to mark the 150th anniversary of the artists represented will be Hamaguchi, interlocutor might have established.
Exhibition 9, Walker Art Gallery, founding of the National Gallery. Merlyn Evans, Avati and Krjuli. That he could do this seemed like a
William Brown Street, Liverpool Prizes totalling nearly £1000 will be mark of respect both to the painting
L3 8 E L. given and the judges are Sir Colin The PАSTА/МОМA strike was and to the conversation. I think his
Anderson, John Hobson, R. B. settled in the final days of November. painting carried the kind of conviction
Art into Landscape is a Kitaj, John Piper, Sir Paul Reilly and Members were not altogether that suggests —a conviction in which
competition with prizes totalling Denys Sutton, who will be looking satisfied with the settlement. While there's no hint of complacency. His
£3000 being promoted by the Arts for 'an essentially up-to-date design the salary increase across-the-board good paintings were achievements
Council in co-operation with the reflecting the glory of a supreme was sizeable the gains hoped for in the and I don't think the bad ones were
Royal Institute of British Architects, collection of paintings from the past'. areas of representation on the Board ever compromises.
the Institute of Landscape Closing date is 28 February and of Trustees and 'disputed' titles were I learned a great deal about
Architects and The Sunday Times. conditions of entry and entry forms not realized. PASTA/MOMA itself was painting from talking to him, and
What the judges will be looking for is are available from : The Financial not broken however. about criticism. I also learned by
. that act of imagination which will Times, National Gallery Poster looking at his paintings — particularly
put "art into landscape".' Schemes for Design Competition, Bracken House, about what it might mean for colour
any wasteland, housing estate, car 10 Cannon Street, London, ЕC4Р to be substantial in a non-
John Hilliard 10 runs past a fixed point
park, urban park, pedestrian precinct, 4ВY. representational painting, and about
town square, etc. are welcome. The how an ambition to make it so, in
sites could be imaginary but the Art Aktuell, the bimonthly reference to a certain European
judges particularly welcome magazine which publishes tradition, is a European virtue.
I associate these various
Art Aktuell's top twenty for 1973 impressions with the way his work
impressed itself upon me generally.
In the paintings that I like most he
seems to have worked through a
chain of comparatively
unformalized, seductive images,
towards an intended, more rational
but not necessarily less sensuous
image ; the governing procedure
here was one in which right choices
could be taken as representative of the
achievement of integration within
any context for which the relevant
problems themselves held good :
where to establish an edge, which
colours to juxtapose, what kind of
painting to make, what to value,
what to embody.

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