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24.25″x16″ 61.25cmx41cm
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"aim balances deftly form with a congealing sense of coalescence. Creating a dialogue between tradition and expansion,aim presents the Iceman in action-not the normally fizzing and fomenting figure but a man literally Blocked.This generic turmoil propagates seething contemporary references.It is extreme artifice at its most confected limits. Blocked, not vanquished, the Iceman is presented as spatially and vertiginously explorative. Between the performative pictoriality and the sumptuous endlessness of the implied Blocks, there is an iridescent dialogue between man and the elements. The gestural appropriation of the activities contrasts with the stillness of the Duck. A conceptual and visceral abandonment suggests a conceptually refurbished re-imagination of inexorably defined determination. [Kafe Smictiric-art critic]
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Rory Rounder:Is Brexit affecting your art?
The Iceman: Brexice? Plice icecuse me but I aim not faimiliar with that term.
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Rory Ronder: It’s a great privilege to have you both in the studio together. Can I ask you if both the live work and the paintings are exploring the vexed question of Climate Change?
Iceman+Aim(speaking simultaneously): It’s one………….
Aim: You go first.
Iceman: No, please, you speak first.(Both whisper to each other)
Iceman+Aim (together): We have decided not to aimswice that piceticeulaimr quicestion.
Rory Ronder: What?
Iceman+Aim (together):You heard.
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"It's a complete masterpiece. I'm referring to the painting of course but also the performance art portrayed within it." [Kafe Smictiric-art critic] http://anthony irvine’s plice in performice aimrt hicetory ice icessured-“The Welsh Tour” by aim
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15.75″x14.75″ 40cmx37.5cm
Question: Are aim, the Iceman and anthony irvine inicetricably linked?
Aim: Yes
The Iceman: I am told so
Anthony Irvine: As far as I know
Just like the reflective construction of the blocks symbolise the relationships between nature and culture, civilisation and collapse, this painting of Anthony Irvine’s early performance art establish architectonic gestures. This veritable triptych brings out the power structures , aesthetic and political meanings inherent in postmodern modernism. This nexus of power, gender and space explore in a dazzling manner the priorities of life. The viewer(including myself)suffer usefully a temporary disorientation and dislocation that makes one leave the gallery reluctantly and painfully but nevertheless hopefully. It’s more a call to action than a desertion of transparent intuition re the 6th sense. These gleaming relics of previous performance art make one wish fervently that one had been there. The site-specific painting with the dancing angels coming down the steep cliff-sides while ai launches the large cardboard box with another angelic aid, doomed to sink(we presume)invite one to consider the fate of all enterprises and is deeply moving. The painting of the mustard hair wash and the Lucozade filling wellington boots must refer to the pain of the head and the sugary comfort of the feet. From top to toe, ai reveals his experience of life. The extraordinary painting of ai laying the wall-paper with cutlery suggests a strange but significant Banquet. The figure is a cross between a mystical chef and a master of ceremonies at an elaborate ritual. It is truly fascinating seeing a record of the Iceman’s performance art before he fully committed to melting ice-blocks. I think I for one, detect the early nascence of the Blocks,perhaps in that Block -shaped cardboard box or is it actually cardboard? One never knows with ai-perhaps it was made of ice![Kafe Smictiric-art critic]]aim
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1-The mustard hair wash & the Lucozade foot bath.(Sherman) 2-The cutlery meets wall-paper piece.(Chapter) 3-The cardboard box launch while the angels descend the cliffs.(A bay near Swansea) [anthony irvine-performance artist]
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