Robert Nelson of the Age admits ‘sometimes the eyes aren’t enough’ after missing the point of the installation in his review.
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When the Age’s art critic Robert Nelson reviewed a one-day art project in Melbourne on the weekend he noted the audience was looking at an installation by a UK conceptual artist in “puzzlement”.
“You could sense that viewers were searching in themselves for an explanation,” Nelson wrote in his review of Jeremy Deller’s work, Father and Son, which featured lifesize grey candles in the form of a seated old man and a younger man slowly burning to a puddle throughout the day.
