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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.High drama at London’s Serpentine Gallery. Karen Kilimnik’s retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery is a theatrical marvel. Her paintings, from the last ten years, are interspersed with drawings and installed in spaces which take the guise of different rooms from stately homes. Walls are painted Sapphire Spring, Willow Creek or Rose Trellis (all authentic un-Kilimnikised names) and some of the gallery spaces echo the actual interiors of the paintings - gold title plaques hang next to each work and velvet curtains hang at the entrance of each room - positioning you almost within the images themselves.You’re taken on an adventure through the centuries as she borrows from artists; George Stubbs, Joshua Reynolds, Jean-Baptiste Oudry to name but a few. Yet her creations are given their own whimsical narrative with ballerinas, cupids, dandies and contemporary celebrities taking on the persona of historical figures, living within the warm seductive hues of her landscapes and interiors. Kilimnik is a playwright at heart, directing her actors, sets and audience. It’s certainly a play in which I’d like a part. Karen Kilimnik is at the Serpentine Gallery, London, until 09 April 07.
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