Cloud Cuckooland 2003
concrete & steel
"......Macklin’s new work is multi-layered and moves freely and confidently between formalist praxis and personal narrative. He uses nature not just as a source of formal investigations but also as subject matter, thus marking new relationships between nature, architecture, and subjectivity. It is a first full attempt, an experiment to rewrite his art with lived experience. As French theorist Jack Ranciere has suggested: “ it is at this junction between art, life and thought that artists, critics, and audiences may reinvent aesthetics.”
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Caterina Pizanias, PhD., Calgary, Alberta
