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John Swope/Don
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The merciless exactitude of John Swope’s
photographs is entirely self-sufficient and beyond all problems of
expression. Stieglitz developed a lever of perspective to move an opera
house, Swope devised a method of elucidating light. Don Sorenson saw the saddle of Einstein’s
universe as a technique of visual representation, which is why the paintings
in this retrospective resemble Albers’ Constellations somehow.
Perhaps put less simply, the curve is educed from strait lineation in a
manner of painting akin to Ed Moses’ at the time, and a pliable sense
of the grid associated with Jasper Johns on Beckett. Woods Davy has become a genius. His
careful drilling and joining of stones that float in air like Magritte’s
castle now adopts a pose, an articulation as subtle as Laurens or Giacometti or
the wind. |
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