As for the people in his paintings, the lovers and friends, the central question was how to
depict bodies in space while simultaneously capturing something of the relationship, the currents of emotion between them.
Not exact matches
The entire show consists of six different chapters, each showing different relation between the
body and the
space, from a large 8x2 meter charcoal studies
depicting football hooligans fighting, four paintings of the skaters
in a modern art museum breaking a series of paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, six black paintings representing the infinite
space beyond the surface of the abstract paintings, a cast resin sculpture and a drawing of Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, all the way to the interactive app that allows viewers to interact with the works on view.
In fact, the signature performance documentation seemed an afterthought (as virtually anything relegated to the space's misbegotten working corridor «gallery» inevitably does), here represented simply by a trio of photographs, all 2010, depicting actions in which different chairs are «worn» in ways that torque and distort the subjects» bodie
In fact, the signature performance documentation seemed an afterthought (as virtually anything relegated to the
space's misbegotten working corridor «gallery» inevitably does), here represented simply by a trio of photographs, all 2010,
depicting actions
in which different chairs are «worn» in ways that torque and distort the subjects» bodie
in which different chairs are «worn»
in ways that torque and distort the subjects» bodie
in ways that torque and distort the subjects»
bodies.
His intimate works penetrate to the core of human integrity, often
depicting images of figures wrenched
in that critical
space where the strained coordination of mind,
body...
Each of his subjects, seemingly devoid of expression and
in a state of anomie, are
depicted with large heads attached to
bodies cut off at the knees — distortions of form and
space, compressed as if swaddled within the frame.