Method in Compelling Madness: Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970, Turner Contemporary, Margate

By Jennifer White

The very title of Beyond Form, showing at Margate’s Turner Contemporary until the 6th May, contains something of an impossibility. How to get beyond form? There is no such space to inhabit. Just as we think we’ve evaded it, we realise that form is the ultimate mutating monster, constantly shifting, but never quite ceasing to encompass us. It is fitting,…