It is Simple
From 1968 on, Nixon's art, which is strongly self-referential, 'abstract', opposition and romantic points to an art which harks back ideologically to the spiritual, revolutionary and psychological fervour of another era - that of Constructivism as well as to Arte Povera, Minimalism and Conceptualism.
Life Blood
The drama, the catharsis is always present in Nixon's work - unrepenting thirst for freedom, autonomous expression and a longing for truth and purity expressed through the simplest emblem like forms - paintings, etchings, drawings, sculpture and monuments - using the cross, the rectangle, the circle, the square, the oval, the vertical and everyday objects from the world of culture, labor and nature.
The Long Journey
These 'self portraits', these 'culture of materials' - they are simple and forthright works - a journey dealing with the 'Abstract' and the 'Real'.
John Barlycorn. 17.10.85. Melbourne.
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