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| | www.likeyou.com - Dennis Oppenheim - Recall - MOT, GB-London |
 | | A video, tightly focused on Oppenheim's lips, shows the artist talking about his art school years, how he changed his practice, and how he specifically moved away from painting as he came to see it as a redundant medium. |
 | | Oppenheim inhales the turpentine and "...like a drug, it induce(s) an alteration of consciousness; as my senses are filled with this smell my memory slowly uncovers images of a past region in which the smell prevailed, as I verbalise in a kind of rambling stream of consciousness monologue. |
 | | There is a timeless sense of the contemporary in Oppenheim's monologue, these stories are not dissimilar from the ones all ex-art students have recalled at some point - tales of being misunderstood, misdirected and then, ultimately, of refuting the entire art school system in some way. |
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