Cathy's Art Diary

Thought provoking exhibition at White Cube, Masons’ Yard, of new work by Fred Tomaselli. The show consisted of two different sets of work photograms upstairs and large collage pictures based on New York Times covers downstairs. The upstairs work was intriguing with ‘portraits’ of people devised by talking to them about the drugs they have taken and representing this like a mind map including their date of birth and using the shape of the constellation of their star sign. The fact he was described in the handout as “a visual taxonomist” appealed to the librarian in me. Upstairs there were also beautiful pictures using leaves arranged on photographic paper then exposed to light. He then paints over the resulting images with very precise colourful geometric patterns. I loved these as they were so carefully painted. However the fun really started downstairs we the wonderful large scale reproductions of New York Times covers with the photographs replaced by collages and p...