Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – Shadows

\Johnny MillerShadows12.12.2009 - 20.02.2010

Johnny Miller, *1962in Newcastle, England, lives and works in Osaka, Japan

Photos: Jens Ziehe

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion

– T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

Johnny Miller is a master of melancholy and the grotesque.
The personnel of his linocuts, collages and drawings consists of bizarre and tragic figures. They exhibit clownesque or animal-like features, are as small as midgets or big as giants. As agents of the subconscious, they represent diffidence in interpersonal encounters (Defending My Position, 2009) as well as physical and emotional inadequacies (The Piano Lesson, 2009).

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Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – Shadows
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – Shadows
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ Johnny Miller – Shadows