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4 unusual facts about Clive Head


Clive Head

In September 2012 Paraskos will guest curate an display of Head's work alongside that of Nicolas Poussin at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.

In 2007 he worked again with Paraskos at the Schwäbische Kunstsommer, University of Augsburg, Irsee, Germany, and since then they have collaborated in publishing and lecturing on what they call The New Aesthetics.

In terms of artistic practice it is possibly closer to the direct engagement with reality one sees in the paintings of Antonio López García or Frank Auerbach than either photorealist painting or photography, although stylistically it is still very different.

Significantly this stands in stark contrast to the tendency amongst artists in the latter half of the twentieth century to define art using Marcel Duchamp's claim that anything is art when an artist says it is art.


The New Aesthetics

The origin of the New Aesthetics lies in an art summer school held in Irsee, southern Germany, in 2007 and the joint class held there by the English artist Clive Head and the Anglo-Cypriot writer and art theorist Michael Paraskos.


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