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Article: OBSESSIONS
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1994
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It was when printmaker Michael Carlo mentioned that he sometimes
swings across a ravine on the end of a rope just for the thrill of
it that I resolved to sign up for his weekend course at Bury St
Edmunds Art Gallery. Art, at the school I went to, wasn't a bit
like swinging over a ravine.
Carlo says that art should be all about freedom of expression.
Children at rural schools, he maintains, should spend less time
doing studies of bottles and fruit and more time getting muddy
doing drawings at the bottom of ditches. In his recent work, Carlo
documents the slide of the well-tended Suffolk fields into the
limbo landscape of set-aside.
Michael Carlo is one of five artists invited by Bury St ...