Bernard Cohen, Fall 1964
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Like Cohen's 'In that Moment', also in this display, this painting is a homage to the French writer Albert Camus. It refers in particular to Camus's confessional novel 'The Fall' of 1956, which it echoes in being an uninterrupted monologue. It also continues Cohen's fascination with cooking, which, like painting, is a procedure and a selection of ingredients before it results in an end product. Here food is imagined piled on a plate too big to fit into the rectangle, which Cohen deliberately subverts by tilting the angle of the image. On top of the food is a 'sauce' made of all the painting's colours mixed together… (read more)
September 2004
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