| Tony Clark | |
Tony Clark, Section from |
The most established artist in Wall Drawings, Tony Clark, has always seemed at a distance from his contemporaries because he situates himself within the sinuous history of decorama rather than the linearity of traditional art history. His investigation of the decorative arts has led him down winding paths that link English Chinoiserie and military camouflage, Islamic architecture and American pop culture. He has a keen sense of how abstract embellishment dislodges itself from one context and then unravels itself in another, creating transversal connections. In Wall Drawings Clark sets himself up as a no.de in this complicated web by declaring himself available to undertake commissions from other artists in the show. The result is a recombination of some of Clark's characteristic motifs (fields of Wedgwood blue, biomorphic patterning, a Myriorama landscape) within the site-specific parameters of the show |