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001 Self Portrait with silk, after Donatello. Photograph Caroline Douglas Chelsea School of Art 1984 London
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001 Self Portrait with silk, after Donatello. Photograph Caroline Douglas Chelsea School of Art 1984 London |
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| Amanda Yuill writes Iain Macpherson is an arte povera sculptor and typographical designer. His work is intelligent and idealistic, his materialism is independent, happy in mind and serious in spirit. The images he produces are innovative, warm, loving, curious and kind. He captures the individual shimmer of sunlight by taking photographs of the transient light. These are fresh and of the moment, as the objects that populate his still lives. Sarcastic, dry, sophisticated; his outlook is resolutely genuine. In his photographs he revisits a resonant ideal or image; a place of nostalgia, with the mystery and mischief of an enquiring mind. The photographs reveal him to be a kind of existential dreamer, sampling the ambient waves of colour, in the silver corrugations of foil, swimming in his eclectic tastes, open and experimental, playful and positive and always seeking to expand his horizon. He explores the viewpoint of the outsider, this foreign land is immensely satisfying to him, | offering variation that is intense and alternative. Through his work he reveals he is not afraid to lose words and phrases. In the beginning was the light. The framed object becomes the attention of his artists gaze, adored momentarily through the digital lens, building upon the intense vibrant focus, that is at times overwhelming. However he is a precarious, passionate artist who makes us laugh also. His relationship with the viewer is close to that of clown or fool. The pronounced visual sense he displays is absurd and overt in formality. He flirts with our senses, he teases our smile of recognition, he lowers our natural defences without ceremony. He meets the viewer halfway, he risks all in the adventure. Then, again, the photographs are silent. In thought, he roots for the flesh and blood in the situation, beyond the pure lust, of hunger, desire, his reason has come of age, sensitive, shy and pitched in the key of see | |||||
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