Conor Harrington
Visited
the Lazarides Gallery in Rathbone Place to see work by the excellent Conor
Harrington. Forget Damien Hurst or David Hockney. Forget the Lucien Freud blockbuster
for which people are queuing around the block. Conor Harrington’s your man. The
Dead Meat exhibition features a
mixture of traditional fine art mixed with graffiti, oil on canvas mixed with dripping
spray paint straight from the can. The work focuses on scenes of excess and
debauchery that suit Harrington’s style. He destroys large parts of each painting allowing only a glimpse of fine art to survive the vandalism. Realism
and abstraction in every picture.
Also
saw the Eve Arnold photographic exhibition at the Art Sensus Gallery. This was disappointing.
Not sure how many more pictures of Marilyn Monroe applying her make up I really
want to see. Despite this the exhibition is
worth a visit if only to see the Malcolm X pictures. One shows a very
uncomfortable American white supremacist George Lincoln Rockwell and two
henchmen, in full Nazi regalia, front row at a Nation of Islam rally. Both
groups shared a belief in segregation based on race and were hence singing from
the same warped song sheet.
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