Exhibition review Jay Merrick The Independent 2009 Holed up in his Somerset manse, the artist Simon Casson has become as mythic as his paintings, described by the trendy New York interior designer Adam Tihany as “the Renaissance on LSD”. Casson is one of the most highly skilled painters of his generation, yet the sheer lushness […]
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Exhibition review at Contrast Gallery/Pearl Lam Gallery Shanghai China Ann Brodie Shanghai Talk 2008 I have to admit that for a large portion of my interview with British artist Simon Casson. I’m completely baffled. He rattles off endless lists of obscure artists – expected and even more obscure mathematical theories – unexpected – that apparently
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Exhibition review at Lisa Kurts Gallery Memphis Fredric Koeppel 2005 Commercial Appeal Memphis Virginia Woolf said that the world changed in 1910, and give or take a few years, she was right. The decade that encompassed World War I saw the sowing of the seeds of scientific uncertainty, the development of motion picture technique and
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Exhibition review at Long Ryle December 2003 Lucinda Bredin The Week London. Simon Casson (b. 1965), who has had solo exhibitions in Holland, the US and Britain since 1996,paints pictures that are patch works of tantalisinglynot-quite recognisable fragments of Old Master paintings.Bits of drapery, figures and still-life are “collaged” together with occasional strips of blank
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