Richard Jackson: new paintings
Fun exhibition at Hauser & Wirth of new work by Richard Jackson who uses paint as a liquid in installations. I liked the fact these were called paintings even though they were more installation/sculpture works but they all involved paint and many of them created further work by pumping out or spraying paint. I liked the way a couple of them set up a dialogue with other artists even though that might have been unintentional. “Pain-t” was a line of 5 sculptures of small boys firing paint at a wall via their bottoms. Each represented a different colour. This reminded me of a vulgar version of the Anish Kapoor work which fired paint from a canon. “Who painted my horse yellow?” was a full sized horse suspended upside down and, you’ve guessed it, painted yellow. This cried out Stubbs and the work he did dissecting horses. This was a show which made me laugh out loud and, on a day rather packed with modern abstraction, it was much needed. It would have even better if som...