Friday, 19 July 2024

Wong + Kelly

From the triennial exhibition GTA24 currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Toronto ...

Matthew Wong's Ruins and The Wish:



One of Jean-Paul Kelly's How Cruelty Disgusts The View While Pity Charms The Sight drawings:


Wong's Ruins made me cry when I first saw it, just like a Giorgio de Chirico's painting would.  Poignant and depressing, and together with Kelly's drawings, they weighed on me so much that I had to come back to see the rest of the exhibition on a different day.