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Merlin Carpenter’s exhibition at Diana consists of one work: a painting sealed in cardboard that will not be opened until 2081.
The painting inside — though we can’t see it — is one of a series of reinterpretations made by Carpenter of John Hoyland’s 1960s abstractions (unusually ambitious for British art at that time). Carpenter produced the copies in 2009 and formally requested permission to show them; Hoyland refused. He then sadly died in 2011. This made any display potentially actionable under copyright law until the end of a period lasting seventy years — 2081. The works were initially kept in Simon Lee Gallery’s storage, boxed in the same cardboard in which they are now shown. After many discussions, in 2017, for his third exhibition at Simon Lee, Carpenter exhibited the works exactly as they had been stored. They became monochromes of packaging, or metaphysical paintings of absence and impermanence.
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Merlin Carpenter’s exhibition at Diana consists of one work: a painting sealed in cardboard that will not be opened until 2081.
The painting inside — though we can’t see it — is one of a series of reinterpretations made by Carpenter of John Hoyland’s 1960s abstractions (unusually ambitious for British art at that time). Carpenter produced the copies in 2009 and formally requested permission to show them; Hoyland refused. He then sadly died in 2011. This made any display potentially actionable under copyright law until the end of a period lasting seventy years — 2081. The works were initially kept in Simon Lee Gallery’s storage, boxed in the same cardboard in which they are now shown. After many discussions, in 2017, for his third exhibition at Simon Lee, Carpenter exhibited the works exactly as they had been stored. They became monochromes of packaging, or metaphysical paintings of absence and impermanence.
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