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Exhibition Review - Paddy McCann: 'Black Quarter' The MAC, Belfast till Oct 18th 2015

 

 

 

"I am for an art that takes its form

from the lines of life itself,

that twists and extends and accumulates

and spits and drips,

and is heavy and coarse and blunt and

sweet and stupid as life itself."

- Drenched Co

(Taken from Claes Oldenburg's "I Am for an Art..." in Environments, Situations, Spaces (New York: Martha Jackson Gallery, 1961)).

 

 

Comment: "In researching this work, I had to sit through hours reading the most harrowing tales of violence inflicted on man by man. " - FaSa

 

 

See themaclive.com/shows/paddy-mccann

 

 

See also www.woundsthatbind.com

 

 

Image courtesy of the artist and The Mac, Belfast.

Photograph by Simon Mills.

 

 

We take great care not to harm the image in any way. And these views, they are ours only and not those of the gallery or artists - Drenched Co.

 

 

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