Pretty Vacant: ‘New Romantics’ at Barnard Gallery

Published on ArtThrob, 22 February 2018.

“I arrived at Barnard Gallery in pursuit of the inexpressible. ‘All sorts of things, which cannot be explained or depicted visually, can be found in the exhibition,’ curator Mary Corrigall had promised of her group show New Romantics. Both the press release and an accompanying article Corrigall wrote for Business Day – Artwork as a New Romance Rooted in Nature’s Magic – suggested that the exhibition considered the unknowable, which struck me as only a sly way of saying nothing and also of saying nothing in particular. What was it Wittgenstein had written? The inexpressible is contained, inexpressibly, in the expressed.”

Read the full review here.