John Chilver, «Michael Stubbs:
Decorative Delirium», Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, solo exhibition catalogue, 2010
Its heady sense of
decorative delirium.
In a spirit of rootless baroque elaboration, the paintings perform
their decorative delirium.
All of this is contained in the notion of
decorative delirium, the tenor of which has to do partly with the violent rootlessness and mutability associated with the intensified complexity of the work.