Leon Kossoff: Unique Prints
Art Space Gallery, 84 St Peter’s St, London, N1, until 21 June
Paintings of Stockport by Helen Clapcott
Stockport Art Gallery, until 28 June
Leon Kossoff (born 1926) is best known as a painter of people and buildings, rendered in thickly meshed paint surprisingly full of light. He trained at the Borough Polytechnic under the visionary David Bomberg, from whom he learnt about the conveyance of insight and emotion through the stuff of paint. It’s a form of expressionism by which the world is apprehended through the senses and given back in paint. The subject and the artist’s experience of it become one, and are then gathered into the structure of the paint to exert their effect on the sensory system of the viewer. Kossoff has built upon this powerful foundation to make art of remarkable intensity and truth.
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