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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Epitome, Exhibition reviews
Review of exhibition at Long and Ryle Gallery Andrew Lambirh The Spectator December 2003 Down in Pimlico at Long & Ryle, 4 John Islip Street, SWI (020 7834 1434), is a solo show by the prodigiously gifted Simon Casson (born 1965). I must at once declare an interest here, for I have been following Casson’s
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