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Commodity Form brings together the work of Colin Darke and David Mabb and is centred on their shared commitment to socialism and their use of painting as a dialectical process to explore visual language.
The Capital Paintings, a series of 480 paintings from Colin Darke, follows on from a previous work, Capital, which consisted of 480 found objects onto which had been transcribed the three volumes of Karl Marx's Das Kapital. The paintings do not contain the transcriptions, but rather use the depiction of the objects to question the means of production. In David Mabb's Rhythm 69, pages from a block-printed William Morris wallpaper pattern book from the 1960s have been glued onto individual canvases. Images by Hans Richter are sequentially painted onto each page from the Morris book. The result is a dialectical exchange between Malevich's work as interpreted by Richter and Morris' utopian designs. |
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