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18 THE RIVER SPRING 2016 CULTURE Engine rooms of art and Power Stations GALLERY damien hirst n Newport Street near Lambeth Bridge Damien Hirst recently opened the door to a collection of artworks including paintings by John Hoyland that are on show until 3 April. One of Britains greatest abstract painters Hoyland 1934-2011 was born in Sheffield and exhibited his first fully abstract paintings in 1960 with the influential Situation group just months after leaving the Royal Academy. Power Stations presents 33 of Hoylands large-scale paintings dating from 1964 to 1982 and are drawn from Hirsts own collection spanning a pivotal period in the artists career. Art critic Mel Gooding identified 1964 as the moment Hoyland broke away from playfully cerebral optical ambiguities and launched his powerful assertion of the painting itself as a complex object. On view in Newport Streets lower galleries the works characteristically feature abutting quasi-geometric shapes that float freely from the canvas edge. The upper galleries chart Hoylands subsequent experimentation with paint texture and opacity freer Gallery 6 Newport Street