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Wall label titled "PP Section" and reads: "Long a grouper of artists by initials or similar and identical names I took particular perverse pleasure (PPP) in putting together these very disparate practitioners who happen to share the initials PP, with the added frisson of urinous association. I am not alone in enjoying such incongruous name- games, there was a group show entitled The Smiths featuring the many artists of that name and Prem Krishnamurthy organized a Perchance talk show with guests who all had “P” names. Here we happen to have Pablo Picasso, Paul Pagk, Peter Pinchbeck, Philip Pocock and Patrick Procktor, never having found quite the right Phillip Pearlstein or Pierre-Paul Prud’hon. I am particularly pleased with Paul Păun, key Romanian Surrealist along with fellow poet Gellu Naum (who is in my book) who later legally changed his name to Zaharia Zaharia. Obviously such a gathering defies any aesthetic or art historical logic, subverting assumptions of chronology and indeed taste."