This is NOT art this is ART 'pataphysics, counterpoise and the tightrope in Barry Flanagan's sculptural practice

In this essay, printed in the publication accompanying the 2021 exhibition at von Bartha, Melvin aims to illuminate the paradoxically consistent approach Flanagan had to his life-work-attitude, like a palindrome falling in on itself.

"It may seem contradictory, superficially, to an outside observer, especially with the popularly characterised assumption we hear all too often: “Oh, Barry Flanagan, the artist who made hares... I didn’t realise he was the Flanagan of sand and other soft materials!” But reader, remember the hare and if, and when, you see one, look carefully at how it moves. Hares appear suddenly, as if from nowhere, changing direction mid-course, and are momentarily, instantaneously still"

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