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\n760.092  \nsuHan  \n6/8Old Bond Street·London WIX3TATel.OI49570I7·Fax OI4950I79  \nDONALD SULTAN  \nWorks on Paper  \nIntroduction by Roger Bevan  \nBeverly Hills Public Library444Nbth Rexford DrveMBevery His,Califorma 90210  \n4 May-16 June 1989  \n100  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nDONALD SULTAN  \nDonald Sultan is one of the most promising American painters of his generation.In his tidy studio onManhattan’s Lower West Side he devises large pictures and,more surprising for a contemporary artist inNew York,small pictures just one foot square.He makes handsome drawings in charcoal and has selec-ted eleven of them for the present exhibition.He is a distinguished printmaker.Over the last ten years,he has established himself as a highly imaginative artist of rare technical accomplishement He has exhi-bited widely in the United States and fully deserved a recent retrospective survey mounted by mu-seums in Chicago,Los Angeles,Fort Worth and Brooklyn.Exactly a year ago he was showing his po-werful Black Lemon aquatints at the Museum of Modern Art.Yet he has sent his work only infrequentlyto Europe and has never before exhibited in London.  \nSultan has attracted attention as much for his peculiar choice of materials and working methods asfor his distinctive iconography of sil lfe arrangements of fruits and fowers,and of episodes of urbanchaos.These paintings he defines as his'event pictures and he has been making them since 1984.Theytreat themes of industrial decay,pollution,rail and shipping catastrophe,terrorist incident,of man lockedin a hopeless struggle against nature's superior forces or crushed beneath the weight of powerfulmachines of his own invention spun dangerously out of control.His compositions are informed byphotographs published in the international press.Pinned to his studio walls,they serve as preliminarydrawings,but Sultan does not reproduce them slavishly.He crops them,or selects from them.He sup-presses local detail so that an llustration of a specific accident or disaster is transformed,through gene-ralization,into an issue of wider relevance.A gas spill in New Jersey,for example,or a train derailmentin the Washington corridor,becomes a launching pad for debate of those dangers manifesting themselvesin a modern industrial society.  \nIn recent months,it appears that the press has conspired to provide Sultan with an embarrassment ofriches for his'event paintings,so many shocking occurences have been dragged across the front pages.But occasionally,as if to tease the art historian's powers of observation,Sultan coaks a fragment of amajor work by an Old Master painter in his bold,sombre compositions,thereby converting a landscapeas ethereal as Leonardos Ufizi Annunciation into a forest fire,or corrupting the atmosphere of a Whistlercanvas in the Freer in a haunting picture which he appropriately titled Poison Nocturne.  \nHis working practice for the'event pictures is rather unusual and deserves careful consideration.Onsheets of masonite board bolted to a stretcher which projects assertively from the wall,Sultanconstructs a grid of fecked vinyl foor tiles over which he sketches his compositions in chalk,with onlyvague reference to photographs as a tailor might mark cdoth.Then he gouges his imagery with a knifeand fills his excavations with a thick layer of butyl roofing rubber,a material which,he says,reminds himof his father’s tyre shop in North Carolina.By scorching this rubber compound with a blow torch,Sultancreates a violently blistered surface which heightens the emotional punch of the subjects he is illustra-ting while it contrasts rather effectively with the smooth veneer of the tiles which he brushes with a re-stricted palette of diluted acidic colours and leaves to stand as sky or landscape.  \nWithout direct reference to the source photographs which trigger his comp","cbCaiek9aZcWnEbO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiek9aZcWnEbO","pdf",2568313,36,"English","# INTRODUCTION\n## Donald Sultan’s 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