Et Sick In Infinitum (End is Forever) series; artist, Alastair MacKinven seen at the Saatchi Gallery, Newspeak: British Art Now exhibition ‘The scale of these works give the gallery a disorientating effect, overlaying MacKinven’s painted architecture on the experience of real space: as the viewers move around in the gallery their paths replicate the maddening maze in the images… These paintings were originally installed with handrails and grab bars that highlighted the viewer’s performance as they unwittingly took on the roles of Escher’s famous figures, eternally pacing a go-nowhere path and its metaphor for time’s passage and aging.’
On June 20, 2010 at 9:18am

Et Sick In Infinitum (End is Forever) series; artist, Alastair MacKinven

seen at the Saatchi Gallery, Newspeak: British Art Now exhibition

‘The scale of these works give the gallery a disorientating effect, overlaying MacKinven’s painted architecture on the experience of real space: as the viewers move around in the gallery their paths replicate the maddening maze in the images… These paintings were originally installed with handrails and grab bars that highlighted the viewer’s performance as they unwittingly took on the roles of Escher’s famous figures, eternally pacing a go-nowhere path and its metaphor for time’s passage and aging.’
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