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John Abrams: Cinema Vernis.

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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JOHN ABRAMS: CINEMA VERNIS

Curated by RM Vaughan, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton

John Abrams' solo show Cinema Vernis at the McMaster Museum of Art uses film images, which the artist translates into paintings ranging in size and style. The works interrogate not only the state of figurative painting, but also the tendency of popular culture to absorb and transcribe film into the realm of everyday life. The artist depicts scenes from Godard's Breathless (1960) and Contempt (1963), Wertmuller's Swept Away (1974) and Beineix's Betty Blue (1986), yet the works in Cinema Vernis are less about the actual films than about how the painter translates narrative from one medium to another and what happens...

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