on 11/4/07 1:38 AM, Peter Cudmore at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> There's a nice piece on the avant-gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay today at
> <http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2053444,00.html>
>
> "Ian Hamilton Finlay was an incredibly provocative thinker who played on the
> opposite poles of conservatism and revolution, authority and dissent", it
> says. There's another incredibly over-used word.
>
> P
Guardian piece fascinating. And the gallery statement it leads to,
including:
The Sonnet is a Sewing-Machine for the Monostich
will be the largest ever presentation of Finlay's rarely seen neon works,
which date back to the early seventies and run parallel to his better-known
inscriptions on stone. In his essay to accompany the exhibition Stephen Bann
has noted: 'There can be no doubt that neon poems were an integral part of
Finlay's oeuvre, and embodied some of his earliest intuitions about
extending his poetic ideas beyond the printed page, as objects in the
world.'
The exhibition will comprise two distinct bodies of work - in the upper
gallery, a collection of neon works first exhibited in 1993 at the Crawford
Arts Centre, St Andrews, Scotland and in the lower gallery neon works and
wall texts relating to the French Revolution. The 'monostich' of the
exhibition's title is a poem of one line, an uncommon form first widely used
by the Russian poet Emmanual Lochac, who lived in France from 1894
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