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Article: Art exhibition reviews: Ellsworth Kelly: Get on the Damascus road and convert the way you view the everyday world
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- Scotland on Sunday
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- February 15, 2004
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ELLSWORTH KELLY
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
IT WAS one of those moments when you realise nothing will ever be
the same again: the moment Ellsworth Kelly changed the way I see. It
happened 11 years ago in the Tate Gallery. We were walking together
through an exhibition of 40 years of his work and slowly,
tentatively, I was firing off fairly basic questions, attempting to
unravel the essential truth of the man behind some of the most
breathtaking works of art I had ever seen. Finally, after half an
hour of gentle probing, Kelly looked up at the light fittings - white
boxes in the ceiling.
"Look," he said, pointing at them. "That's what it's all about. I
want my painting to be able to relate ...