Read Brian Dillon’s fantastic review of the Tacita Dean exhibition on at The Common Guild in Glasgow. An example of why good criticism matters.
Discussing contemporary artists (like Sam Taylor-Wood) updating the traditional nature morte, Dillon shows how a good critic’s ability to make fine distinctions between only nominally similar endeavours, allows us to see the world more clearly and variously.
“Prisoner Pair is not so much a consciously painterly move (for one thing, the film is shot from several different vantages) as an exploration of the metaphoric potential of its subject.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/01/tacita-dean-common-guild-review