Press Release
November 1976 - Chelsea News, London


A view of the rear of Holy Trinity, Sloane
Street, in an exhibition of the work of American surrealist artist Stephen
Polin (pictured), which is at Sloane Street Gallery, Chelsea, until December
4th.

Sloan Street Gallery
STEPHEN POLIN
LONDON REVIEW
Reality's component parts are reallocated, realistically
depicted and combined with overt fantasy. Polin was born in Philadelphia in
1947 and began his career as a medical student. Three of Hearts, in playing
card format, with semi-biological leaf-like hearts and a small bee, is
amusing. Towards Knightsbridge embrases fact and fantasy with a line of
houses, large impending leaves, a clear sky and no traffic. His borrowings
from Magritte and Georgio de Chirico are blatent, but given that the
dynamism of surprise has died with our acceptance of unexpected
juxtapositions, the problem is to re-enact Surrealism in an interesting way.
Annabel Terry-Engell.
SLOANE STREET GALLERY
158 Sloane Street, London SW1
Telephone: 01-730 5835
Introduction to several young artists. Work by American Surrelaist artist
Stephen Polin to Dec 4th