Contemplations from my visit to Francis Bacon’s studio at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, on November 2018.
Considering my admiration for Bacon, it still seems unlikely that I have not visited Bacon’s studio on my first trip to Dublin in 2016, which, at the time, felt as if it was the first and the last one. It was not only the rush of the schedule I was involved then, but also following the steps of this “medium for accident and change” requires an emotional preparedness for me, as well.
tempted by details
What is even worse is me, writing these contemplations years after the visit. As a devoted admirer of Bacon, my mind is no less chaotic than his studio. In any case, I feel like these brief notes will be a precursor for a series of Bacon writings in this blog.
“The Logic of Sensation”- second toughest labor of philosophy after Spinoza’s logic of emotions
Grotte de Lascaux, Le Matador by Picasso, bulls of Bacon (never a chronology!)
It is always tempting to encounter a somewhat reference to the ever-evolving focal points of my life vision, whenever I resort to the works of Bacon.
*Francis Bacon Five Decades (Ed. Anthony Bond), Art Gallery NSW Thames & Hudson (2012).
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