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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Exhibition review of “Vengeance of Orestes” Andrew Lambirth Royal Academy Magazine / number 74 / spring issue 2002 The manipulation of the Classics is afoot at Long & Ryle where ex-RA Schools student Simon Casson provides a luxurious and multi-layered world of passion and desire in his dramatic compositions. Taking the story of ‘The Vengeance
SIMON CASSON’S TURBULENT CANVASES WRENCH OLD-MASTER CLASSICISM INTO THE GRAFFITI-GUN CHAOS OF THE 21ST CENTURY. Jay Merrick – The Independent 2000 Simon Casson is a gifted painter who finds himself, in his early 30s, at the crossroads of innovation and success that has made much of a sensually schizoid worm in the bud. His large
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Simon Casson’s paintings cross a cultural divide, uniting figurative art with the severity of abstract modernism. Casson, currently enjoying his first solo London exhibition, trained at the Royal Academy.Using a muted palette evocative of 17th-century masters, he creates monumental paintings, in which half-draped neoclassical, Baroque figures – Venus, Danae, Circe and Penelope – materialise from
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