Jacqueline de Jong at Rodolphe Janssen

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Stylistic violence never registered strongly in painting. Like Picasso or de Kooning ripping and rearranging people, it's often mere composition. I've never found Guernica all that horrific. Abstraction's pulling reads less like the horror of war and more like the whims of painter. Ambiguous violence - of someone like Miriam Cahn - forces a viewer to complete the picture in their head, imagine their own violence.

Jacqueline de Jong at Château Shatto

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Stupid direct perhaps what we need right now. Feeling like relief from the overdetermined grab bag of coloric cartoons currently feeding on. We could use some dry paintings. Maybe you have to come out of Situationism to make something this calmly strange. Still and horrible.

Jacqueline de Jong at Château Shatto

Jacqueline de Jong at Château Shatto

Compare this to the tortured wranglings of most contemporary interviews, the breathless story of a life: https://frieze.com/article/life-and-times-jacqueline-de-jong