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studio 1.1: KATE LYDDON - 'Rouge Your Knees' - 17 July 2009 to 15 Aug 2009 Current Exhibition |
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KATE LYDDON 'Rouge Your Knees' 17 July - 15 August 2009 Private view: Thursday 16 July, 6 - 9 pm On immediate impact (somehow the boxing/car crash metaphor seems utterly apt), Kate Lyddon's paintings depict a world of abandon and excess. In these acute quasi-narratives (nonetheless Grand for all that) scraps of paper and real hair trail across the canvas like discarded clothes. There is something deliberately seedy here but any element of Bacon is much much younger and lighter (more legible? a less bleary eye?) and the desolation is soaked in snakebites not champagne. A lurid saga of teenage disappointment rather than hard-won despair. Bacon is off the hook then - indeed off the peg. And instead of masochism there is a gimlet eye that skewers like Van Dongen or Ffeiffer, and what looks like a confessional Hello! from-the-gutter element in her work is actually sharp-eyed observation. Scaled up, in the larger works the characters take on a hieratic quality but are still like us: allegorical figures from a Biblical or even Hindu epic - petty Gods obsessed by their own melodramas. Pop Idol reality TV Ramayana. studio1.1 57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ tubes: Liverpool St / Old St bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388 email: [email protected] tel: 07952 986696 web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk open: Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm or by appointment |
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