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Published in Art Review, May 2009
“I’ve made a conscious effort to take perspective our of the pictures”, [John Riddy] says; “I think it’s an attempt to use a more ‘primitive’ way of composing the image so that you end up with something more guttural, where flat planes are suspended in a different pictorial space.” The resuld is a London that seems built out of stage flats of trompe l’oeil hoardings, a city fabric made of grey facades on which are inscribed the traces of alternate histories.
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