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The British artist Clive Head has been described
as the most significant painter of his generation.
At the heart of Head's work is the notion of transcendence
Although his paintings seem to evoke the chaos of London life
They also take us outside it.
In earlier times transcendence meant
the desire to move away from earthly things
and to move nearer to God.
But for many of us now transcendence is a more vague desire
simply to get away.
But that desire has always been there.
It's the desire to return to the mythical paradise
from which our ancestors were expelled.
But while the parasise of Eden can seem very distant;
the paradise of art is very near.
It can even seem very familiar.
And yet it remains just out of reach on the other side of the picture plane.
In the Autumn of 2010
Head staged an exhibition at the National Gallery in London.
It was an exhibition I found myself strangely part of.
by the question
could you repeat the trainees
she's not me
or rather
and this is not me
they have to go back to another part of a religious history
which happens also to be the starting point for western art
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aiken painting is the origin of western art
and the same principles we see
in american painting
also end up in the work of an artist like like it
faces a painting
take simple materials traffic a new world
in which state
and time operate differently
this conceived alien in our society
is about the nature of our in world
do something
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signify
it does not symbolize the thing it represents
it is what it shows
that means to look at the creek alikum
face into heaven
at the image transcends the materials from which is made and becomes a magical
window between two space
and the space of heaven
and because the nature of that space is very different or read
because the innate things we cannot stay in our world
we can see ngos and saints
we can even see cold
so what if we seek life it's paintings in a similar way
what if these are not representation of london
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we could only experience them
tentative reality
so if it takes is outside all world our reality
warily
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we're looking at heaven
does not happen
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ship to heaven
simply that it exists outside the states that all world
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this is not london
it is not me
she's me into space i could not experience in our world
in a perfect world
without chaos and confusion
without time
she's not me
old is to enjoy
it gives us the opportunity
worlds we have never seen
any restriction on that
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fabricating those worlds
but the artist
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always transcends realistic
out of our world
into a kind of paradise