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Andrew Mcneil
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Wendy-Snyder MacNeil | Americain, 1943
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Exhibition : Under the bridge
A work of visual art should surely speak for itself. This is increasingly rare in the contemporary art world, which needs and admires verbose explanations. In themselves the Rembrandt-evocative portraits from this series, actually of homeless people, many of them junkies or mad, are visions of Christian mystics: a Christ-like man with piercing eyes, half-hidden in shadow; a pieta Madonna in her grubby knitted hoodie; pre-exorcism Mary Magdalene with raccoon kohl eyes and a fag between her lips; St Sebastian pierced by a syringe instead of arrows—these are the saintly martyrs of old, updated. A young man gazing up at God, a crucifix on a chain dangling from his mouth, has the face of that 20th century martyr of the revolution, Che. But photographer Andrew McNeill is not romanticising his sitters. Mysticism and in...
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A work of visual art should surely speak for itself. This is increasingly rare in the contemporary art world, which needs and admires verbose explanations. In themselves the Rembrandt-evocative portraits from this series, actually of homeless people, many of them junkies or mad, are visions of Christian mystics: a Christ-like man with piercing eyes, half-hidden in shadow; a pieta Madonna in her grubby knitted hoodie; pre-exorcism Mary Magdalene with raccoon kohl eyes and a fag between her lips; St Sebastian pierced by a syringe instead of arrows—these are the saintly martyrs of old, updated. A young man gazing up at God, a crucifix on a chain dangling from his mouth, has the face of that 20th century martyr of the revolution, Che.
But photographer Andrew McNeill is not romanticising his sitters. Mysticism and in...