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Face to Face<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

‘Face to Face’ written by Della Gooden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many times have you looked at a painting and it has looked straight back?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact in 1995 I swear that Mondrian\u2019s \u2018Composition with Double Line and Yellow\u2019<\/em> looked at me first. At the time I thought that little painting in the Gemeente Museum was one of the best I had ever seen. That\u2019s why I chose it. Picked it out when playing a game of \u2018Which one in this room would you steal?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But perhaps the truth is it <\/em>chose me<\/em>. 
That\u2019s how it really<\/u> went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Composition with Double Line and Yellow’<\/strong>, 1932 by Piet Mondrian (Creative Commons CC by NC)<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Galleries of Scotland -https:\/\/www.nationalgalleries.org\/art-and-artists\/artists\/piet-mondrian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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It was an uncommon exchange and not forgotten because that painting had to crash through impossible barriers. It popped the conditioned tedium in that room and confidently called out: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Hey you!”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Yes, YOU!”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Come over here”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…So I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the insistence of my present<\/em> that encounter keeps from waning, continues to have poignancy and because it is such a brief incident from my past, it\u2019s a little surprising that it even still matters -but it has become something of a personal parable, albeit one mediated by the vagaries of memory, by the time that has passed since, and by the renewed experiences of the re-runs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I will need this painting for the rest of my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to wonder, does \u2018Composition with Double Line and Yellow\u2019<\/em> still call out to strangers? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

… I\u2019d like to think so.
I believe she\u2019s back in Edinburgh now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Della Gooden 2018 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

‘Face to Face’ by Della Gooden was commissioned by the curator of the exhibition ‘Transforming Surfaces’, Richard Bell and GR Thomson as one of 4 introductory texts for the catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Transforming Surfaces’ ISBN: 9781789260892<\/em>
Published by Arthouse1 London
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