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Martin Sharp [1942 - 2013] 'Catalog....continued No.3',…
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29-Nov-2020
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Martin Sharp [1942 - 2013] 'Catalog....continued No.3', [published by Reid books, 1971]. Extremely rare., Vincent appears as talisman on the cover of 'Catalog' produced in 1971 for a show of Sharp's work in Sydney. The 36-page exhibition guide, which sharp likened to a digestive process, is a confessional scrapbook built organically, at the end of each day, from his handwritten meditations, passages cut from books and papers, reviews of his work, and snippings of cartoons and photos set against a churning backdrop of sinuous line work and rogue outgrowths of globular matter., I was exploring the idea of verbal collage and visual collage and each night I'd just sit down after working during the day getting the exhibition going, it was very like a digestive process. I'd just stick a few words down on a page and it'd grow and it'd reach a certain density, there's no sequence to read things in, no particular order. How many different worlds one could find, and so you start finding, building up a layer of different sentences and pictures and expression. And suddenly you'd start to find that there were strange connections between very disparate works' It's connections like these that become very interesting. You realise that a lot of people reach similar conclusions from enormously different doorways which they've entered into'I'm very interested in coincidence, and coincidence obviously happens all the time, so when a coincidence happens, it often belongs to a different, completely different world to the ordinary world we live in, it doesn't apply in that rationale at all.' Martin Sharp, interviewed by Albie Thomas, c1980
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