http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/michael-krebber%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cc-a-n-v-a-s-uhutrust-jerry-magoo-and-guardian-co-uk-paintings%e2%80%9d/ Wed, 23 May 2012 18:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/michael-krebber%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cc-a-n-v-a-s-uhutrust-jerry-magoo-and-guardian-co-uk-paintings%e2%80%9d/#comment-1120 taxi-cab Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:16:04 +0000 http://www.art-agenda.com/?p=10004179#comment-1120 I don't know if you've seen the black paintings in real life, but saturn devouring his children is the least jarring in the group-- which I would say, on the whole, is perhaps the most powerful suite of paintings I have seen. Maybe as an image, or simple in title, "Saturn Devouring His Son" is the most horrific, but seeing it I was more amused by how corny it was, and at how unfortunate it is that this is the one that has come to represent the black paintings. but also, again, given the title and image, one can understand how, unfortunately, this is the case. it is the picture of violence as opposed to the capturing of the abstractness of violence-- a much more difficult thing to do, but a thing that Goya achieves in the other paintings, in the masses of piled bodies, or even the odd dog head painting. So I wonder if it is in this way that the Krebber show is like Saturn-- it seems the best on paper (or rather a website), but there is really no teeth to it. I don’t know if you’ve seen the black paintings in real life, but saturn devouring his children is the least jarring in the group– which I would say, on the whole, is perhaps the most powerful suite of paintings I have seen. Maybe as an image, or simple in title, “Saturn Devouring His Son” is the most horrific, but seeing it I was more amused by how corny it was, and at how unfortunate it is that this is the one that has come to represent the black paintings. but also, again, given the title and image, one can understand how, unfortunately, this is the case. it is the picture of violence as opposed to the capturing of the abstractness of violence– a much more difficult thing to do, but a thing that Goya achieves in the other paintings, in the masses of piled bodies, or even the odd dog head painting. So I wonder if it is in this way that the Krebber show is like Saturn– it seems the best on paper (or rather a website), but there is really no teeth to it.

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