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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories

The National Gallery: 7 December 2005 - 12 March 2006

Tom Hunter, 'Living in Hell', 2004. Courtesy the artist and Jay Jopling/White Cube, London.

Tom Hunter's new work for this exhibition takes as its subject the lives of the ordinary residents of Hackney, as reported in local newspapers. These often startling stories are told in carefully staged photographs derived from Renaissance paintings. Hunter's reputation has been established with a series of engaging, puzzling and provocative photographic reworkings of paintings from the past. ...

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