...and art without
The former Palmerston North sculptor,' John Panting, exhibits nineteen silkscreen prints, seven pencil drawings, seven acrylic and aluminium rod sculptures and two steel and stainless steel cable constructions in an exhibition of his work at The Robert McDougall Art Gallery. Mr Panting has lived in London since 1964 and teaches at The Royal College of Art and The Central School of Design. His prints relate to his constructions only in that they are nondescriptive. He sometimes uses Escher-like ambiguities of perspective, but mostly he repeats little patterns of crosses and squares in an attempt to titillate the optical senses.
His very linear sculpture contrasts greatly in style with the work or the Italian sculptors in adjacent galleries. Concerned with tension and thrust and the nature of the materials he is using his constructions are devoid of emotional content, they describe nothing and exist by themselves in space in the form of solidly conceived mathematical equations. The exhibition will remain open until November 28. —G.T.M.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33083, 25 November 1972, Page 19
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167...and art without Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33083, 25 November 1972, Page 19
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