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William Eggleston - 21st Century
Opens: 15/01/2010 Closes: 27/02/2010
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Prepare to be overwhelmed by the inside of a freezer as eccentric photography legend William Eggleston shows his abstract inclinations in this exhibition of recent work. Inordinately influential on contemporary visual culture, Eggleston's saturated snapshots of American banality are oddly seductive.
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The Telegraph“Unexpected loveliness...” Eggleston's photographs contain some of the most luminescent colour that you can hope to lay your eyes on in a printed picture. What's even more surprising is that Eggleston finds such colour in dumpsters, bathrooms and alleyways...
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Time Out“He applies a poet's sense of mood and melancholy to the abject...” In a portrait of a young woman looking into camera - she is shown crying. Eggleston portrays her distressed face in exactly the same way as the distressed surfaces of wood or metal in his other images - both messy and beautiful...
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The Independent“The images reach beyond immediate visual pleasures...” William Eggleston's photographs contain some of the most luminescent colour that you can hope to lay your eyes on in a printed picture. What's even more surprising is that Eggleston finds such colour in dumpsters, bathrooms and alleyways...
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The Observer“The strangeness of William Eggleston's way of seeing remains unsurpassed...” If the more tonal and abstract works on display here are anything to go by, Eggleston is still dancing to his own dissonant tune, and his eye for the extraordinary that lurks in the ordinary still surprises...
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this is london“Calming and oddly inspiring...” The novelty now lies in the new abstraction. Untitled (Freezer with Ice Bags, Kentucky, 2000) is a gorgeous painterly view from inside a freezer, the misty iciness muting the colours to pale polar blues, and icy ridges creating a sensual pattern...
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Guardian“Who else would think to photograph this dreary beauty? ...” When he focusses on a small gape in the middle of louvered curtains giving on to a further, ultramarine geometric pattern that catches hidden light, I am transfixed by the stillness and emptiness of a moment that amounts to almost nothing...
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