Oliver Cloke» Alexander Pozzalon Gallery awful http://www.olivercloke.com Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:12:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Alexander Pozzalon Gallery http://www.olivercloke.com/alexander-pozzalon-gallery?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alexander-pozzalon-gallery http://www.olivercloke.com/alexander-pozzalon-gallery#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:03:34 +0000 admin http://olivercloke.com/?p=26 Today I don’t really have much to say, firstly because it’s Friday, secondly because I wanted to comment on a show that I thought was absolutely rubbish. I walked into the Alexander Pozzalon Gallery just off Tottenham Court Road, a haunt of mine which usually surprises me. However I found only average sized paintings with these average muted landscapes, then to my horror plastered on top were the conceptual crap. She had painted smiley faces and cartoon characters that bobbed up and down festooning this imaginary countryside. I can only describe them as if Turner was having an off day, smoked some drugs with jimmy Hendricks and bumped into Hello Kitty. Which coincidently I think was one of the names of the paintings. These lurid colours clashed terribly as they were unconsciously placed together without any prior thought. The brush marks were basic and blocky, but that could just be a reference to the helter-skelter Mario like world she lives in.

She had written that the work was about her experience of not knowing where she was living Asia or Europe, blah, blah, boring.There was no engagement with surface of the paintings, no real thought past the coincidence that she could attach a brush to her hand and place it on a canvas. I find myself becoming more and more negative. I just found the artwork wholly uneventful, which is a disappointment. I expect more from a private gallery in central London with the resources to find some amazing artwork that is going on in their backyard.

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