15 July 2014

Helen Johnson - Failing Up: On Painting and Discursive Stupidity | Psssssssssssssssssssst : John de Silentio



     
This seems a very appropriate moment to recall the artlife of John de Silentio aka John Barbour (1954-2011). 

First, some images of John's 1988 exhibition at 200 Gertrude Street, staged at the same venue as tonight's lecture by Helen Johnson. This will be the ninth in the Contemporary Art Lecture Series presented by Gertrude Contemporary & Discipline.



    
And here's his study for 'The Look of Love',
plus a few others gifted moments from his life of  
Failing Up: On Painting and Discursive Stupidity.







Oh no! Not anot-her :

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ... 

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