JONATHAN LASKER, an ardent believer in the vitality of painting as a medium for artistic expression, rebelled against the pervasiveness of conceptual art: It started as a response towards minimalism and the position that painting found itself in at the end of the 70s, which was a situation where on the one hand you had conceptual artists who opposed painting altogether and thought painting was thoroughly dead; and on the other the last really successful body of painters that almost declared they had ended painting. They painted the last possible most reduced painting you can make which would be a minimal painting, the flat surface. So to me as an artist was like how do you reinvest the picture plane with metaphor, maybe narrative or maybe not narrative, to talk about picture making and put it in the way that shows the consciousness of the elements of making a painting, and that’s how I began this body of work.
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We all want to be young by Marco van Lenten
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The Voynich manuscript, described as “the world’s most mysterious manuscript”, is a work which dates to the early 15th century, possibly from northern Italy.It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912.
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Wine Glass Chess Set by Anders Nordby
