![]() I felt that I had been transported not only to the back streets of New York to look at the work of artists of the second rank struggling to be noticed in the Sixties and Seventies after the high point of Abstract Expressionism had been passed, never good enough to become household names, but to the School of Paris in the Fifties when every artist there was attempting to break the traditional moulds of painting and sculpture, and every commercial gallery was backing a stable of inevitable failures. ![]() Nothing about this exhibition suggests that we are about to take a step into some outrageous or wonderful unknown. Let me go further and say that even the simple word "new" is not appropriate in any sense other than that all the exhibited works were made or painted within the current decade very few are new in material and execution, fewer still in idea, and some he has shown us before. Moreover, Saatchi’s choice is cluttered with diluent works that are not abstract but robustly figurative. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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