Tony Bevan New Paintings Ben Brown Fine Arts Catalogue SUE HUBBARD
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas ... A cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S Burroughs
What does it mean to make a chart or map? In the conventional sense it is, or course, about topography and concerns the contours of the land, the flow of rivers and the height of mountains. But it can have an altogether more metaphorical meaning
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Excerpt from an essay by
MARCO LIVINGSTONE
The human head, and specifically his own, has been Tony Bevan’s most obsessive subject during the 90’s, endlessly rephrased and reinvented on a colossal scale that allows the viewer no escape from the confrontation. Of all the images at the disposal of a figurative artist it is the one with the greatest potential of speaking of the human spirit and the full range of emotions
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