This exhibition features tough but humorous sculpture, unapologetic and brash, political yet ambiguous, considered yet
painterly, and reflects on Harvey's
concerns of national identity and masculinity - «It is partly to wrest something from the all - pervading guilt
over colonial misdemeanours and also in part to ironize an overly romantic valuation of the past.
Over a fifty - year career, Semmel has practiced a radically self - possessed
painterly project
concerned with charged eroticism and frank, corporeal self - portraiture.