Review of Susie Hamilton: in atoms at Paul Stolper

01/07/16

Susie Hamilton: In Atoms

Paul Stolper

9 June – 9 July 2016

Drips of paint, suggestive brush strokes, thin translucent veils rendering the surface indistinct. Even when clustered together, Susie Hamilton’s paintings evoke a pang of loneliness: they offer snapshots capturing that sense of isolation and existential angst we have all felt during moments of despair. Returning to Paul Stolper Gallery for a 20-year retrospective, the artist offers an overview of her work, showing both its breadth, but also the simultaneous consistency of her preoccupation: lone figures, filled with sadness, exposed in darkness or light; the comedy of human pursuits. As Albert Camus wrote: “At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

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Interview with Jonas Burgert

05/01/15

Interview with Jonas Burgert

Also published in issue 16 of State magazine, winter 2014/15

Interview with Jonas Burgert at Blain | Southern

20/10/14

Jonas Burgert: Stück, Hirn, Blind

Blain | Southern, London Hanover Square

14 October - 22 November 2014

Down the road from London’s Royal Academy, where the German painter Anselm Kiefer is currently wow-ing the public with his epic paintings on a very grand scale, another, younger, German painter is on show.

Blain | Southern gallery shows Jonas Burgert. Born in Berlin in 1969, he also works on a scale that shocks and surprises. 

But are works on this scale purely the province of museums and the private collectors with foundations of their own? Just who could house a painting like these with their overwhelming power and dominating presence…

To watch this interview, please go to: http://www.state-media.com/state/index.php?q=videos/jonas%20burgert