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Issue 07

	Pear-Shaped Spectacle: Winston’s Alien Invasion in L.A., Kermit Brine
From the detail and realism of Emily Cullman’s The Fall, Adam and Eve Tempted by the Pear, to the controversial Young Cyber-Virgin multi-media sculpture series by David Destino, the inaugural exhibition at the Pear Museum was a calibrated workout for both art and architecture. This is a gallery where art in its various iterations seems remarkably at home...

	Concept, Delegation, Production: Three Parallel Voices on the Art of Todd Cross, Susan Sinden
In 1954 Jasper Johns dreamed he was painting a large American flag and shortly afterwards he began to do exactly that. In 2020 Todd Cross dreamed he had cloned himself so many times he no longer knew who he was, and shortly afterwards he began painting a large American flag anyway. Like so many artists of his generation, Cross employs his clones as studio assistants...

The Fall, Adam and Eve Tempted
by the Pear,
Isabel Ovitz

The Bible as a subject has intrigued and inspired artists for more than two thousand years. As a result, the quantity and variety of art with biblical themes is truly tremendous. Sadly we now find ourselves in an age when the influence of the Bible on art and on every-day life, is at an all-time low. Thankfully the art of Emily Cullman aims to bring the history and drama of religious belief back into the realm of visual art, and effectively define for the Western world its response to faith and reason...

People Love Machines and Vice Versa...,
Celeste Rodman

Every major economic and social revolution in history has been accompanied by a new explanation of the creation of life and the workings of nature. The new concept of nature is always the most important strand of the matrix that makes up any new social order. In each instance, the new cosmology serves to justify the rightness and inevitability of the new way human beings are organising their world by suggesting that nature itself is organised along similar lines...