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Anticipation I - James Wright This weekend was the last for Catriona Warren and Kay Saatchi's excellent Anticipation exhibition, of work by newly......

Donald Eastwood

This weekend was the last for Catriona Warren and Kay Saatchi's excellent Anticipation exhibition, of work by newly graduated London art school students held in the basement of Selfridges.

It was a great show, especially compared to the cramped alternatives that have been strewn across private gallery spaces in the weeks since the degree shows, and similarly to last year's oneoneone gallery incarnation - at times very similarly - the art on show is of a very high standard.

Another benefit to the space is that idle shoppers dart in. Forget consumer-focused snobbery; new art deserves new audiences. And the curators recognised this with excellently written introductions accompanying the pieces.

So a shame indeed that it is finished, but in case you missed them here are three of the best on show, beginning with RCA graduate James Wright's acrylic-on-oak 'urban reformations' of Renaissance masterpieces. The vivid oval scenes, like stolen glances onto unremarkable pavements and walls, hide his witty symbolism of his compositions: bin bags in place of Mary and Joseph in The Fated, Titians as torn advertising posters (on Titan ad boards), while the graffiti vanitas skull in Futility is fresh as if it were done yesterday. Presumably it may be washed off tomorrow.

Wright also had a solo show in Vyner street's One in the Other gallery, and you can read some well informed prose on him here.

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