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Robert Hodgins’ work offers a sombre look at the human condition but is also about the pleasures of being alive
03 November 2022 - 13:42
Was Robert Hodgins an SA artist? As I type these words, I imagine Hodgins’ ghost staring at me under quizzical spectral eyebrows, as if to ask in response: “Does it matter?”
Perhaps it matters for two reasons — first, because it affects how we talk about SA art history; and second, because it informs the ways in which we understand the artist and his work. ..
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