{"id":4846,"date":"2009-04-03T01:24:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T00:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2009-04-03T01:24:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T00:24:30","slug":"fred-tomaselli-at-white-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/03\/fred-tomaselli-at-white-cube\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Tomaselli at White Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitecube.com\/exhibitions\/tomaselli\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4849\" title=\"tomaselli.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tomaselli.jpg\" alt=\"tomaselli.jpg\" width=\"454\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tomaselli.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tomaselli-400x261.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tomaselli-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 85vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>left: Summer Swell (2007); right: Big Raven (2008).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I like Fred Tomaselli&#8217;s hyper-detailed psychotropic paintings a great deal. Londoners can see an exhibition of new work at the Mason&#8217;s Yard branch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitecube.com\/exhibitions\/tomaselli\/\" target=\"_blank\">White Cube<\/a> until 16 May, 2009.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tomaselli\u2019s new work is a departure from his earlier, more direct use of pills, hemp leaves or ornithological references. The birds are painted with greater freedom, with each flame-like brushstroke animating the feathers as if an aura were radiating from the wild creature. <em>Big Raven<\/em> is inspired by the American Gothic tradition and the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, while <em>Detail<\/em>, with its dramatisation of the relationship between predator and prey, is a timely homage to Darwin\u2019s <em>Origin of the Species<\/em>. The single, hypnotic gaze of <em>Eye<\/em> celebrates Tomaselli\u2019s understanding of visual reciprocity \u2013 as if the bird were returning the artist\u2019s affectionate stare. This reoccurs in the galaxies of multiple eyes found in his photograms, or monstrous apparitions created in direct response to front-page articles from the <em>New York Times<\/em>, through to the talismanic eye that emerges from the sea in <em>Summer Swell<\/em>, as if it were drowning in its own visual abundance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/03\/the-art-of-fred-tomaselli\/\" target=\"_self\">The art of Fred Tomaselli<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>left: Summer Swell (2007); right: Big Raven (2008). I like Fred Tomaselli&#8217;s hyper-detailed psychotropic paintings a great deal. Londoners can see an exhibition of new work at the Mason&#8217;s Yard branch of White Cube until 16 May, 2009. Tomaselli\u2019s new work is a departure from his earlier, more direct use of pills, hemp leaves or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/03\/fred-tomaselli-at-white-cube\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fred Tomaselli at White Cube&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44,17],"tags":[93,312],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-psychedelia","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-fred-tomaselli"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1ga","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}