19 JUNE to 7 SEPTEMBER 1997
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| C A S E was a series of exhibitions representing the work of several artists whose work comes out of, is informed by, or is extending a painting practice. |
Anton Hart, Yuko Shiraishi, Lyell Bary, Susan Norrie, Eugene Carchesio
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'You need only to wander around a Perspecta, a Biennale or even an EAF, to see that painting is no longer the belle of the ball. It is a little ignored and lurking in the shadows like a wallflower: burdened with the history of a canonic centrality and all the dull duties of being adult - a form which avant gardistes worth their salt should perhaps ignore or reject in their search for new solutions, new forms. Some people have even pronounced it dead. Others claim it to be impossible. So given histories, positionings and attitudes, how do you work with it? Or from it? How does a contemporary practitioner use, or ignore, the expectations and positionings that painting - in the widest definition of the term - finds itself in the late 1990s?' The season represented some diverse responses by artists to the practices and problems of painting and consisted of exhibitions by Anton Hart, Yuko Shiraishi, Lyell Bary, Susan Norrie and Eugene Carchesio. |
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   images top to bottom: Anton Hart Yuko Shiraishi Lyell Bary Susan Norrie Eugene Carchesio |