EXHIBITIONS
   

 

Zen and the art of cities

 

Other shows:

Housing & Homelessness
Cities in Watercolour
The City Beautiful
City Journeys
City Markets


 

 

Peaceful
Reflection

Mark Cazalet
(b 1964)

 

 

Everyday Epiphany V, 1999

Oil on canvas.

 

 

 

 

 

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By and large, celebrations for the year 2000 had little religious content. The exhibition Stations - the new sacred art was a notable exception. Mark Cazalet was one of 13 artists commissioned to produce new sets of the Stations of the Cross to be displayed throughout Suffolk churches. His interpretation was the only one to set the scene in a contemporary urban context and he locates the story of the passion in West London where the artist lives and works.

The settings were striking but also harsh. So was the re-enactment of the doleful last hours of Christ. Soon after he finished the paintings, Mark Cazalet, in a touching gesture of deeper engagement with the work, produced a second series of paintings, a selection of which are on display here. They use the same settings, but without the figures; they are a softer, gentler meditation on city streets, the scenes of so many crimes but also the source of infinite visual poetry and quiet contemplation.

 
         
 
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