Tony Phillips has appeared many times on this site over the years (articles here), this morning his exhibition in Barga opened giving the public a new look at some of his latest work.
Tony for most of his working life has been working on a series of drawings and paintings all carrying the same title or banner – The Guide to the 20th Century. These drawings use semi religious symbols and metaphors in an attempt to make us look back at our selves as historical animals and belonging to a different age. A series of shrine like images featuring what could be called “gods of electricity or of the nuclear age”.
As you can hear in the short conversation with Tony recorded during the opening of his show, many of his preoccupations with signs and symbols in the modern world are still prevalent in his new work but there is also a slightly harder edge to the new pieces making it probably his best exhibition to date.
Hi good to see coverage of Bargain again missed the pics as well as the comment. How long is exhibition on for? Needs to be on until 7July for me.
Hope to see you then.
Without question, Tony Phillips is one of the most creative people in a valley where the creative imagination is hard at work at every turn. Whether the subject is London or the Garfagnana, he explores landscape and figures alike in great conceptual depth without compromising their sensuality. That’s a very rare accomplishment.