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Article: Pushwagner & Soft City
Posted: August 17, 2012
It seems oddly fitting that it is Harriton Pushwagner (above, real name Terje Brofos, born 1940 in Oslo) who has brought me to Milton Keynes to visit his first British exhibition. No disrespect, but being here seemed as if I had stepped inside the story and world of Soft City (above), the Norwegian artist’s foundational opus, which he worked on in fits and starts in Oslo and London between 1969 and 1975. I couldn’t help feeling like one of the hapless, hopeless, office-worker drones in their Magritte-esque bowler hats. Perhaps my limited first impressions had been coloured by my re-readings of this 154-page graphic novel. It all seemed so ‘soft’ here, so thought-out, as if I was walking inside somebody else’s thoughts, somehow subtly controlling. As Pushwagner warns, ‘Who controls the controller?’ The show is in its final days, concluding Sunday September 2nd - it’s really worth the trip to Milton Keynes’ MK Gallery to see it. Read the rest of my new Article here…
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