Saturday 4 July 2015

Steinberg (July)

Saul Steinberg turns words into three-dimensional forces with a life of their own, agents of change in their landscapes. He is a tiger for puns. PELACO stands several metres high on scaffolds, like a Jack ‘Captain Blood’ Dyer shirtfront on the neighbourhood in general. Less overstated is Steinberg’s bittersweet VINEGAR, the evergreen skipping girl hopping eternally above its flat message. The artist’s monthly versions (July is a masterpiece) of Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum’s Highett Street house are surrounded by monster lettering COUNTDOWN, their descending scale indicative of mortality. Hence perhaps the shift to other  transitory Richmond signs: EPWORTH and MELBOURNE CLINIC.

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