George Braque
Clarinet and Bottle of Rum
on a Mantelpiece
1911
oil
on canvas
81
x 60 cm
Bruno Dunley (BR)
untitled
2014
oil
on canvas
200
x 150 cm
Saturday, 24 January 2015
Saturday, 17 January 2015
Damien Meade / All Dead Painters
Hand stencils
Cueva de El Castillo
Cantabria, Spain
c. 35,000 BCE
People
die, and things survive them. We look for meaning everywhere, fervently in
the things of the dead. But some of these things are constructed in such a way
that they seem to activate and respond to our random projections, feeding on
them, and swelling into a feedback loop of call and response. Paintings are
these things. C.S. Peirce defines an index as a category of sign that
maintains a physical tie to its referent. Every painting is indexical, an
index of consciousness itself. In work, every painter is like a deaf-mute.
So in death, there is no voice lost, but consciousness prevails.
Damien Meade, 2014
Damien Meade (IE/BG)
Untitled
2013
oil on linen on board
46.5 x 35.5 cm
Saturday, 10 January 2015
Bart Vandevijvere / Marthe Wéry
Marthe Wéry
1994
acrylic
on wood
59
x 51 cm
The
wonderful fundamental and a-referent painting of Marthe Wéry has a high
sensitivity. The perception of it demands an open, unconditioned attitude: a
slow process, as the opposite of today's quick and pre-cooked consumerism.
The
work 'Toru' refers to a same kind of spirit and painterly approach. It's
dedicated to the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu.
Bart
Vandevijvere, 2014
'...
painting is the creation of an analogy for the invisible and the
unintelligible, which should become figure and should become accessible ...
Good paintings are therefore incomprehensible ... They are incomprehensible so
that they cannot be consumed and remain essential ...'
Gerhard Richter quoted in an essay by Benjamin H.D.
Buchloh, entitled 'Richter's facture: between the synecdoche and the spectacle'
Bart Vandevijvere (BE)
Toru
2014
acrylic,
water on canvas
100
x 80 cm
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