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Globe and Mail, Toronto
April 3, 2010
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Gary Michael Dault
GORAN LUCIC AT THE ALISON SMITH GALLERY
Goran Lucic’s exhibition of encaustic paintings bears the hopelessly ungainly title “Agedness Wears Patina”(why “agedness” and not just “age”), but this is happily not sufficiently off-putting to detract much from the splendour of Lucic at his best.
His best happens when he works big. The small paintings, while charming enough, are mostly decorative, but with a large (five-by-four foot) picture like Burned at the Bottom, Lucic’s pictoral inventiveness gets free rein and he starts to get rough and urgent – and makes something that is both visually exuberant and profoundly un-slick (no small achievement with encaustic).
Globe and Mail, Toronto
April 3, 2010
Gallery Going
Gary Michael Dault
GORAN LUCIC AT THE ALISON SMITH GALLERY
Goran Lucic’s exhibition of encaustic paintings bears the hopelessly ungainly title “Agedness Wears Patina”(why “agedness” and not just “age”), but this is happily not sufficiently off-putting to detract much from the splendour of Lucic at his best.
His best happens when he works big. The small paintings, while charming enough, are mostly decorative, but with a large (five-by-four foot) picture like Burned at the Bottom, Lucic’s pictoral inventiveness gets free rein and he starts to get rough and urgent – and makes something that is both visually exuberant and profoundly un-slick (no small achievement with encaustic).