Published: June 03, 2021
For 30 years Bell has deployed his canvas for bold activism, which takes over the Museum of Contemporary Art in his biggest solo show to date
Seated at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art while his huge, brilliantly coloured canvases and video works are being installed for the biggest solo exhibition of his career, Richard Bell, 68, packs a rhetorical punch both in paint and in persona.
His 2017 painting Immigration Policy reads “YOU CAN GO NOW!” in large earth-toned uppercase letters on a map of Australia, confronting all visitors the moment they walk into the first floor southern gallery. It is also the title of this retrospective.
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