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Thursday, 14 January 2021

Artlyst - Robert Smithson: The Archetypal Nature Of Things

My latest piece for Artlyst reviews two Robert Smithson exhibitions at Marian Goodman Galleries and considers the significance of the period in Smithson's life when he got interested in Catholicism through T.S. Eliot and that range of thinking:

'Smithson was invested in a definition of art that was timebound and precarious, that would not claim monumental status, rather collaborate with entropy. Up until his death in 1973, Smithson demonstrated that art can be a means to explore how we might try to understand our place on the planet, with all of its complexities.

All this is incipient in that earlier starting point where he identified with the “Christian mystics bemoaning a fallen world”. Incipient there, too, is his awareness of that the unknowable zero island – the prolongation of spirals which reverberate up and down space and time – is only realisable on a metaphysical level, as that offers the only path from the contingent natural universe to something beyond.'

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Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus - I Carry The Sun.
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Friday, 9 September 2011

Wanstead Art Trail & local churches




Great to see local churches, Christ Church and St Gabriel's participating in the Wanstead Art Trail this weekend.
Find thought provoking art and land art in and around Christ Church Wanstead, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. A special art feature and demonstration are planned by Karen Davies-James and Maggie Widdecombe.

At St Gabriel's Aldersbrook there is art by the Tuesday afternoon class at the church and by Aldersbrook Primary School pupils and Philip Joseph's Rascal's Art Club plus members of Art Group Wanstead. Also at the church will be Milda Stockiene's acrylics; expressions of feelings inspired by music and life.

The Art Trail is organised by Art Group Wanstead whose aims include: to promote artists, to help artists to network with other artists (amateur and professional), to promote art classes and art clubs, to make Wanstead a more interesting and vibrant place, to add to a sense of community – and to organise the art trail.

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The Alarm - Unsafe Building.
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