Brooklyn Rail
Barbara Rose interviews painter Christopher Le Brun. Le Brun comments: "Painting wants to be spatial. It has a compass in it that switches to north, and the north of painting is space... But painting is also—which is not said enough, at a high level—extremely difficult. Because you’re not trying to simplify the situation, you’re trying
The Art Newspaper
An excerpt from Barbara Rose's catalog essay for the exhibition Painting After Postmodernism: Belgium / USA, on view through November 16 at Vanderborght and Cinéma Galeries/the Underground, Brussels. The show features works by Mil Ceulemans, Joris Ghekiere, Bernard Gilbert, Marc Maet, Werner Mannaers, Xavier Noiret-Thomé, Bart Vandevijvere, Jan Vanriet, Walter Darby Bannard, Karen Gunderson, Martin