« ‘To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release’, wrote Twombly earlier in his carrer, ‘… it should by no means be limited to a morbid state, but could just as well be one ecstatic impulse.’ »



« Bacon isn’t simply suggesting that these people need to be staged and cage ; he is saying that these images need to be confined. They are so daunting that they need the frame of the picture, and the frame within the frame. As spectator we are told to keep our distance. And this is also makes us look.



« His painting reject the spectacular in favour of the ambiguous, the tentative and the faux-naïve, examining history, memory and subjectivity as both personal and collective phenomena. »