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Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences gets the nod from critics.
"[Shaun] Gladwell has brought the cultural underbelly into the palace. His subject matter is subcultural and his technique is sharp," wrote Robert Nelson in The Age.
After visiting Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences, the renowned critic compared elements of Gladwell's work to baroque art and design, contrasting the suspended monitors used in Centripetal Forces (2011) with the "domed soffits of Europe". The hall of mirrored screens used in Parallel Forces (2011) "updates Rubens," Nelson declared, where Gladwell has staged "speeding vehicles, helicopter and skate boarder in symmetrical counterpoint, as in a baroque salon."
Aesthetica Magazine was also impressed with the exhibition, noting that, "as viewer, we are placed into positions that are unnerving, perspectives that we are unused to occupying...Gravity has been manipulated, and so has our method of thinking. Even as a formal experiment this work is arresting, and represents the germination of what may ultimately become the urban sublime."
Finally, with a proletarian but snappy turn of phrase, the culture hounds at Beat Magazine gave us their review, which described Shaun Gladwell as a "mix of skater dude and high brow art-obsessed genius."
So there you have it. The verdict is in, Gladwell is awesome. Don't miss the year's best video art exhibition, which draws to a close in just over a week on Sunday 14 August.
Image courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
Published Monday, 8 August 2011
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