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Art & Ecology
collaboration between
IAIN BAXTER& & MIKLOS LEGRADY
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This collaboration between artists IAIN BAXTER& & MIKLOS LEGRADY is similar to Rauschenberg‘s “Erased DeKooning Drawing", but instead of erasure there's additions, an origami of images and ideas. The artists share ownership of the work and follow their inclination. As a visual artist MIKLOS LEGRADY paints his paintings; as a conceptual artist IAIN BAXTER& influences the work through emails and phone conversations. We didn't always agree, at times our opinions pulling this way and that, at other times we got along like two horses pulling a plow down the art field. We started on art's ecology and ended with art on ecology. Still, we’re walking on thin ice. To which the &MAN added "Just like the whole wide worldis on thin ice with GWN { Global Warming Now }."
The political course of this work is informed by LBGTQ positivity and cultural diversity. These large cardboard paintings speak of artists navigating a cultural system and how they address institutional mindsets, authoritarian networks, flawed philosophies, and power imbalances. These paintings not only let us see the art world differently, they call our attention to how we feel about it. "& how all of us in the whole wide worldtoday must now change our ways & apply constant ECO-EMPATHY* from each of us, so we can all together save our Mother Earth".
*ECO-EMPATHY, a new word coined by the &MAN.
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#90 - 56" x 50" - 142.24cm x 127cm, acrylique sur carton, Janv. 25, 2021.
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#89- 30" x 48" - 76.2cm x 121.92cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 27, 2021
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#16-28" x 38" - 71.12cm x 96.52cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 5, 2021.
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#17-28" x 38" - 71.12cm x 96.52cm, acrylique sur carton, March 8, 2021.
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#7-47" x 47" - 119.36cm x 119.38cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 11, 2021.
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#18- 29" x 44" - 73.66cm x 111.76cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 11, 2021.
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#15-24" x 36" - 60.96cm x 91.44cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 0, 2021.
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-57 - 35" x 51" - 88.9cm x 139.54cm, acrylic on cardboard. May 9, 2021.
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#58- 36" x 55" - 91.44cm x 139.7cm, acrylic on cardboard. May 10, 2021.
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#59- 32" x 50" - 81.28cm x 127cm, acrylic on cardboard. May 10, 2021.
Rob Storr said that he doesn't think the American version of French theory
or a Frankfurt school in contemporary art criticism is of much use to anybody.
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#60-36" x 55" - 91.44cm x 139.7cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 11, 2021.
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#61-34" x 51" - 86.36cm x cm x 129.542cm, acrylic on cardboard. May 14, 2021.
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#62-25" x 46" - 63.5cm x 116.84cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 11, 2021.
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1-35" x 37" -88.9cm x 91.44cmcm, acrylic on cardboard, May 29, 2021
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2-34" x 32" - 86.36cm, acrylic on cardboard, June 11, 2021
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#3-36" x 42" -91.44cm x 106.68cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 28, 2021
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4-37" x 36" -93.98cm x 91.44cmcm, acrylic on cardboard, May 29, 2021
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#5-32" x 42" -81.28cm x 106.68cmcm, acrylic on cardboard, May 31, 202
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6-32" x 42" -81.28cm x 106.68cmcm, acrylic on cardboard, June 1, 202
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#8-29" x 43" -73.66cm x 109.22cmcm, acrylic on cardboard, June 3, 2021
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#9-40" x 54" - 101.6cm x 137.16cm, acrylic on cardboard, June4, 2021
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#10-39" x 55" - 99.06cm x 139.7cm, acrylic on cardboard, June 7, 2021
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#11-35" x 53" - 88.9cm x 134.62cm, acrylic on cardboard, June 7, 2021
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#12-37" x 36" - 93.98cm x 91.44cm, acrylic on cardboard, June 8, 2021
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#13-34" x 42" - 86.36cm x 106.68cm, acrylic on cardboard, June 11, 2021
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#14-31" x 42" - 78.74cm x 106.68cm, acrylic on cardboard, June 21, 2021
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