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Can We Stop Killing Each Other? review – a violence-themed show that’s about as dangerous as a garden centre
['Jonathan Jones']
Guardian South Asia
Collaborating with a fragrance company, the Sainsbury Centre has developed a scent designed to calm and induce a mood of peace.
To look at and walk among them, the effect is as bland as a garden centre.
Another exhibition, Eyewitness, is a survey of the dramatisation of killing in art, cinema and other global cultural forms.
Things get even more eccentric and timid with a section on Shakespeare in which there are lots of cardboard cutout characters, toy theatres and third-rate Victorian paintings of tragic characters.
The wall texts make a vague link, but by this time this megalomaniac dream of solving global problems with puppets and toy theatres had lost me.
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