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| Guardian Review 14th April 2007 |
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by Robert Clark
(20 Apr 2007) |
Robert Priseman paints uninhabited interiors that appear to be haunted by moments of undefined trauma. His techniques tend towards photorealist precision, with all movement apparently petrified. His historical mentors are painters of atmospheric transfixion - Vermeer, Hopper, Derby's very own Joseph Wright - and his subjects tend to be sites of transitional drama - pristine hospital corridors, looming stairwells, operating theatres, mortuaries - places, as the artist himself puts it, where life and death are in close proximity to one another. Natural light is banished, as is any hint of social reassurance. On entering Priseman's echoing perspectives, you are left utterly on your own. The artist knows what each of us has felt on entering a hospital interior: is this what it all comes down to? Vulnerable flesh up against the clinical impersonality of mortality. |
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