Paul Laffoley (1935 - 2015)
Temporality / Spatiality 1963
Oil, acrylic and vinyl press type on canvas
38 x 75 in. / 96.5 x 190.5 cm
“Paul Laffoley’s diagrammatic paintings, drawings, and box constructions remain firmly outside any of art’s currently fashionable classifications, and they stand little chance of being assimilated into the mainstream. Like the work of the visionary utopians William Blake, Buckminster Fuller, and Charles Ives, works by Laffoley demand to be taken on their own terms. As with the work of all true visionaries, Laffoley’s art has few if any stylistic affinities with his predecessors. The reason for this is that the visionary genre is not a matter of style but of content”.
John Yau for Artforum: Volume XXIV No 9 May 1986 p. 145
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