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It’s Season 28!!! New Talk Art podcast hosted by Robert Diament. Robert meets painter John Currin, recorded at his solo show Opening Credits at Sadie Coles. Currin is widely recognised for his figurative oil paintings in which themes of sexual personae and historical painterly genres appear in surreal and at times, disconcerting guises. Oscillating between a graphic sexuality and playful symbolism, Currin captures the tones and textures of everyday life with an acute sensitivity and a meticulous attention to detail. John Currin’s show at Sadie Coles’ Savile Row gallery focuse...
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Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world. I am Robert Diament and you're listening to Torquard. Welcome to Torquard. Now today I am feeling enigmatic and I'm also feeling slightly like I have rudely interrupted a performance of some kind. I'm here in Savile Row at Sadie Cole's Gallery for a new exhibition which
is called Opening Credits and today's guest is an artist who has pretty much been with me on the whole journey through my discovery of contemporary art and my love of painting and I've religiously kind of followed almost every exhibition he's done in the UK and in America and I've seen museum shows. I've even in 2008 stood outside his show with
Lee McQueen sadly before he passed but we both were talking about how much we loved our guest paintings today. It's a real vivid memory that I have and that exhibition was in 2008 was very provocative and I remember at the age of kind of 27 being it kind of woke me up and it felt like a bit of a jolt to the system and that is the power of today's
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