Not exact matches
[2] In the early 1960s, he concentrated on specific archetypes in paintings and woodcuts, mostly
of rebels, heroes, and shepherds, becoming increasingly interested in
anamorphosis, the distorted or monstrous representation
of an image, as exemplified in the proportions and facial features
of his figures.
Anamorphosis is a spatial and relational exploration
of what makes and defines a neighborhood, set in, and inspired by, the area surrounding the Open Source Gallery.
mx: Transgression Rawiya: In Her Absence I Created Her Image HAI: Sole Exchange Videokaffe: Para-sites & Proto - types Prosjektrom Normanns: Transcendental Tactility / rive:
Anamorphosis Soup Kitchen 2015 Mira Gaberova: Statue
of Everything Savas Boyraz: Back Drop Cristian Bors & Marius Ritiu: Venus von Hamburg Soap Box Derby 2015 Sara Morawetz: How the Stars Stand Whitney Lynn: Rummage Yun - Woo Choi: Endless, Seamless Jasmine Murrell: Some Impossibility Without A Name Tirtzah Bassel: I Want To Hold You Close B. David Walsh: Extracted Bedroom Project Lena Lapschina: Yes / No Soup Kitchen 2014
In searching for alternatives to Socialist Realism and Art Informel, he became interested in
anamorphosis and in the art
of the mentally ill.
But in these canvases and in other works — such as his series
of landscapes freighted with Barbizon - school scrupulousness — the artist has sought modes
of representing that go beyond the pursuit
of likeness, gesturing toward abstraction,
anamorphosis, and anachronism.
The Swedish artist Hans Hamngren produced and exhibited many examples
of mirror
anamorphosis in the 1960s and 1970s.