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PAINTER Fernando Gerassi believes that nothing succeeds like failure. "Each time you fail," he says, "you learn something. If you have faith in yourself you accept the failure and go on. The more failures the better." This philosophy has seen Gerassi through some dark times, and brought him to a point where he may have to abandon it. Gerassi's first exhibition in 20 years opens next week at Manhattan's Panoras Gallery, and is likely to be a smashing success...
...pictures relate to no particular school or fashion, carry no message. They are not meant to stun, dazzle, or instruct the viewer, but simply to be enjoyed. Gerassi clearly enjoyed painting each one. They have the brightness, boldness and paradoxical vagueness that six-year-olds generally bring to painting, but behind the pictures' ebullience lies a highly sophisticated intelligence. Gerassi's Magic Mountains (right) is done with rockbottom economy of means: a few horizontal stripes, one with a sawtooth edge. To those who demand recognizable details, it may seem little more than a close-up of a rusty...