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April 16, 2008 12:05 pm
In his recent solo shows at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris and Daniel Reich Gallery in New York, and now at London’s Maureen Paley gallery, Canadian artist Paul P. has presented lovely, anachronistic-looking studies of young men as memento mori to their (imperceptibly) fading beauty. “When Ghost Meets Ghost” is named after the decadent British aristocrat Stephen Tennant’s observation in his journal after seeing a bust made of his well-photographed features by the American sculptor Jacob Epstein. “When I am dead and forgotten,” mused Tennant, who died in 1987 at the age of 80, “its loveliness will live, gazing back into time—when Ghost meets Ghost.” The dreamy-eyed youths in Paul P.’s pastel drawings and delicate paintings have a long way to go until mortality begins etching itself on their faces, but their ghosts are already present.
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