Liliane Lijn does Poor. Old. Tired. Horse just fine.
When words, or rather when text meets image the cocktail shaking really begins. Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. at the ICA in London suffers the fate of so much art. An intriguing name, if you let the words ferry you away, but not one that does justice to the experience.
P.O.T.H is a fascinating array of painstaking work to build art out of letterforms. It’s highly visual and dynamic as a collection, but the real intricacy comes up close. An homage to the buidling blocks we take for granted, and new forms of picture making from the Sixties ateliers of Carl André, David Hockney, Vito Acconci, Liliane Lijn (pictured).
For a full account of Horse see issue 2 of ROLAND, the ICA’s visual arts magazine. Not since Wyndham Lewis’s Blast have words enjoyed this power. Great work.
