{"id":37598,"date":"2018-09-06T20:37:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T01:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=37598"},"modified":"2018-09-06T20:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T01:37:04","slug":"marshal-hopkins-mercer-union-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2018\/09\/06\/marshal-hopkins-mercer-union-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"~MARSHAL HOPKINS . . MERCER UNION, TORONTO"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARSHAL, a long time friend of Simon’s, from their 1970s university art school days, in Montreal,
\nwith Guido Molinari as their teacher – was also in the show:
\n’54\/84′ – ‘HOMMAGE a GUIDO MOLINARI’<\/a>
\nbut, there is no <\/strong>record \/ no images of his work – on the Mercer Union archive.
\nthe silence is . . sad.
\nlooking back, and forward, I guess you could say, Marshal was also . . a victim of ‘Culture Against . . . US’ (!!)
\nthere’s visionaries, and originals, and then . . there are fakes.
\nwell, at least the show went up.
\nand let’s leave it at . . that.<\/p>\n

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\nIMAGE: MARSHAL HOPKINS artwork via Instagram story @marshal8463<\/p>\n

I don’t have any images of the exact paintings Marshal, might have had in the 1984 Mercer Union show,
\nbut, this is a painting he posted today, on his Instagram story – and that’s pretty telling, as to his oeuvre.
\nif you know anything<\/strong> about 1970s ‘aspirational’ painting, you will know this was completely off the wall, for the time.
\nbesides the small scale, (most his paintings were done on artist board, like 14 x 24 in.), they were very emotional, primitive, and folk art leaning \/ though of course, Guido (Molinari) saw them for what they really were, way, ahead-of-the-game color theory \/ 2nd gen compositions.
\nand duh, they resonate today, with complete magnetism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARSHAL, a long time friend of Simon’s, from their 1970s university art school days, in Montreal, with Guido Molinari as their teacher – was also in the show: ’54\/84′ – ‘HOMMAGE a GUIDO MOLINARI’ but, there is no record \/ no images of his work – on the Mercer Union archive. the silence is . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37600,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37598\/revisions\/37600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}