Reflections on Alessandro Raho’s New Portrait of Young Kim
Stephen Alexander, Blogger
December 2022
Viewing Alessandro Raho’s latest portrait of Young Kim at a recent event in London and listening to what was said in a three-way conversation between the artist, the sitter, and the critic Michael Bracewell about the complex relationship between art, fashion, music and sex, one couldn’t help but think of D. H. Lawrence’s dismissive assessment of English painters; not so much devoid of genuine feeling for visual imagery, as full of fear of the body as a site of various forces, flows, and sicknesses. […]