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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Stuck in a rut? Anyone looking for progress from this stubborn painterly family didn’t read what it said on the tin. Their first exhibition in two years - twinned antagonistically with the Turner – shows a relatively small amount of work, sticking largely to paintings familiar to gallery walls. There is one nod to a new generation; a curious Emily Strange posing in one of Joe Machine’s series of sexual deviancies.The most appealing aspect of Stuckism remains its creation of sub-pop culture, whether it be Paul Harvey’s art deco props for a portrait of Nigella Lawson flanked by pats of butter or Ella Guru’s lonely alco scratchings. However, documentation of snide and dated witticisms are never pretty to look at. In the show, only once is the discontent which drives creation acknowledged. Amongst Charles Thomson’s more obtuse work are two awkward canvases: tiny ladies remotely holding court, dwarfed in the face of loneliness and black; I Feel Bad When I Reject your Love. Even outside of the art version, the world is an ugly place. In it we are faced with two choices - be stuck in it, or get stuck in. Go West is at Spectrum, London, until 04 November 06.
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