FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF CHRISTINE MACEL’S ‘VIVA ARTE VIVA’ IN THE CENTRAL PAVILION

… “A beautiful suite of paintings by McArthur Binion, their surfaces pasted with shredded official documents – the artist’s birth certificate and car registration, for example – painted over with a crosshatch of black and grey or bright colours, willfully turn identity into an abstraction, much the way governments do by force of law…”