The cake-like iceblock, stretching out of the canvas on both sides is enhanced by the V-shaped guttering(?),a way in to another world.It should be added that the subaqueous qualities of the melting system spatially undermines the exploration of montage elements. Here, the double image turns the V into a W. Quite remarkable.[Kafe Smictiric-art critic]

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11″x18.5″  28cmx47cm

It’s difficult to enter into this work immediately because of how the metaphorical resonance of the figurative-narrative line-space matrix threatens to penetrate the exploration of montage elements. However, as always, aim enables a way in through the simplicity of the ladder’s shape.[Kafe Smictiric-art critic.]

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TO RAISE OR NOT TO RAISE

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With regard to aim's powerful series of SMOKD and BANGD paintings,the issue of context is not simply sexual significance but notates a critique of the visual dialogues of the millennium.I personally find the work menacing and yet playful.The paintings bring a disjunctive perturbation that nevertheless challenges contemplatively,resulting in a sense of euphoria that is not negated by any opaque,negative references.The interactive way these extraordinary paintings are formed with the artist actively engaged in developing the work through the use of active smoke and eplosives gives an authenticity that stirs the blood diffusively. The fact that we can also witness the process of aim changing the paintings on various filmed clips means we are aware of different stages of the art work's journey.Aim's oblique art is therefore objectively defined." [Kafe Smictiric-art critic]

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Of course it is all too easy to dismiss the painter "aim" as a complete amateur. But surely that is the secret of his sophistication. If anyone has turned full circle and become exceedingly professional through seeming naivety, it's "aim". [Kafe Smictiric]

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Not many performance artists make the transition from performance to canvas but the Indefatigable Iceman has done just that and is now recognised as a serious painter under the name of "aim". Aim captures the ebb and flow of disconnected ennunciation finding residual fibres of formative experience in every touch of his brush. His repetitive theme irrigates the palpability and psychological material of his own life. A substantitative deconstruction of art history lurks behind his images. There is a tangible emptiness of ossified air, a mature negation of transient, transcentental history.The work begs to be recognised as a statement of self-conscious selfhood. A trajectory of intense appreciation of the universe lurks deep within every picture of aim's. It begs the question -where and what is light? Containing disundating reconstitution and altruistic profundities,aim's canvases disturb and move the viewer in equal measure. Pure and evanescent, aim's paintings nevertheless have a narrative that communicates deftly. Self-determining recollections recall incarnated contradictions that merge in the mysterious ice-blocks. The vital experience, the tabula rosa gain traction and then slip away, even as the Iceman stands next to his Blocks. The textures conjure up excavations of early memories. The beauty of the present and the past alight on the Block momentarily. A beguiling triumph reaches out from the roughly laid strokes, welding a significant symbiosis of total meaning. Experienced as I am,I can only stagger out of the gallery in a state of visual exhaustion. [Kafe Smictiric ]

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http://Crane -piceformance piece exicecuted in “The Mad Show” by pre-Iceman, anthony irvine…….Malcolm Hardee found it difficult.