Turner Contemporary,Margate
From ancient Egyptian suns to Bridget Riley’s sparkling rings of colour, this compelling expose celebrates the lure of all things circularA circle is itself, and pure and simple,but a world of other things too: a bubble, an eye, and a planet,the sun. Casually drawn on a scrap of paper, it can be a gap, or a halo,a ring or the soil itself. Since the dawn of mankind we have been looking with wonder at the full moon in the night sky and the coloured discs in each other’s eyes. The lure of the circle is ancient and infinite; it is surely the most potent of all natural symbols.
It also turns out to be the ideal theme for a expose, or at least for a expose as well curated as this. Seeing Round Corners is the work of two artists, and Jonathan Parsons and David Ward,who have thought very deeply about every aspect of the circle, from its irreducible beauty to its comforting warmth and its fierce self-containment. Every one of the works here, or there are nearly 200 paintings,drawings, videos, and performances pieces and sculptures,has its own fascination but suggests some novel idea about circles. This is the most stimulating and compelling exhibition.
Circles are not just emblems of perfection, continuity, and strength or clarity,but of some kind of freedom tooSeeing so many circles raises the spirits as a expose about squares never couldContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com