David Schutter and Michele Tocca
Sea Wall
9 November – 7 December at 20 Albert Road, Glasgow
Exhibition open Saturday and Sunday, 12-4pm, and by appointment
What is a painting? What is its relation to perception?, to power?, to tradition?
What does it mean to spend time looking at, or making a painting; to attend to it?
Writing about the artist Thomas Jones in the TLS in 2003, Merlin James asked, “What does it mean to give an accurate, matter-of-fact description of the world, or part of the world, or something in the world? When we try to describe objectively what we perceive in front of us, or around us, to what extent are we giving an account of ourselves – of our own impressions? How do we set limits on what we choose to describe, decide what’s the focus our attention and what is incidental or “background”? How could someone judge the reliability of our account, without recourse to that part of reality it purports to record (yet why make a “copy” of appearance at all, if not in anticipation of the absence of the original)?”
