Gallery Talk: Ansel Krut in conversation with Scott McCracken

Exhibiting artist Ansel Krut and Scott McCracken (painter and exhibition curator) discuss Ansel's recent paintings from his solo exhibition "Keep It Simple, Stupid" at Turps Gallery.
“If I find myself painting and I think to myself oh that’s beautiful… or that’s a terrific passage of paint, then I know the paint is winning. It’s seduced me.”
Ansel Krut
In Ansel Krut’s paintings we are presented with figures and objects in a state of transition. A metamorphosis is being enacted. Heavily outlined and inhabiting an almost achromatic world, these discrepant assemblages defiantly resist and evade straightforward categorisation. We think we see one thing, that thing quickly becomes another, playing out its embodied contradictions. It becomes a new thing; a thing that has never existed before.
Filmed on 27th May 2023.

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An absolute genius of the arts.

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Shades of Philip Guston.