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Jean Pierre Derian exhibits here paintings here which owe a great debt to Gerhard Richter's late abstracts which were produced using a squeegee, stretching the paint across the whole canvas, obliterating what was underneath. The works shown make reference on one occasion to a real place as in "Dulwich 2011" but the rest are untitled. This has the effect of leaving the image open to the interpretation of the viewer based solely on the expeience of the paint itself. The images shown are almost monochromatic but with stinings of colour showing through, perhaps an effect of the painting process itself. The works are abstract with no intentionally recognisable figures, although the works are open to the projections of the viewer,
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