POPUP FLASHSALE
Dreamscape
16/10/20
This shiny new website presents collections of paintings and drawings and prints all made over a number of years of artistic practice. As an introduction this first gallery displays an inexpensive quick temporary suite of recent prints. These are mostly lightweight musings, an aperitif or a preface to other galleries representing a wider spectrum of the painter’s interests.
On the scale of the twenty four aesthetic values articulated by Souriau, in his L’Avenir de l’esthetique, the pppup Gallery trends between what he has characterised as the Carricatural and the Picturesqe. Collections examining other aspects will be explained in due course.
The monoprint is a way of making a picture once – only one of its kind exists. Although they are produced from a repeatable original image these works are created in a manner which can’t be precisely replicated. They are wholly varied in their textures and gestural marks; each work is unique. The prints in this gallery are made by a chemical procedure using organic solvents to redistribute pigments and dyestuffs onto paper. The unpredictability of the process offers a wide degree of mark making, allowing for spontaneity and abstraction. Souriau describes the work of the potter where the power of the clay over the potter is equal to the power of the potter over the clay. The outcome cannot be predetermined. There is a playful side to this approach and a degree of parody.
Such broken repetition has its influences in the works of Robert Rauschenberg, for instance, in which a simple (often almost banal) reflexive image can be altered to explore a variety of moods. The artist worked with autobiographical pictures, bound up with childhood and personal experiences and interests, to travel back through time and consciousness. Peeling the onion of memory upon memory aspects of autobiography shared with other people are inevitably encountered. The fleeting spontaneous nature of these lightweight pictures is also tied to the nature of shared aesthetic actuality. Clearly understood references to cultural icons are an integral part of time travel and likewise underpin shared experiences. Parody requires mutual understanding.
These small prints in the popup are sketchy, casual conversation with the mostly vague landscape of memory. Their subjects are more or less general shared images – “barcarolles” – little boat rides over the lagoon. The pictures stumble in the fogs of half remembered things – the sheer pleasure of being in a place by oneself – fairground Hoppings at night in all its gaudy and ankle deep mud – the vicissitudes and vagaries of the weather– political nostalgia for a perceived time of hope – the boy of the future – nostalgia for the Big River (it stank to the heavens) – myth as jigsaw puzzle with pieces missing –Las Vegas landlady (the burlesque is a common theme through most of the ephemera works) – fading memories of la Serenissima – the labyrinth – twilight waterscapes–– the iconic lamp post – the now self parody of the mask of carnevale.
I'd like to take a sail in that boat.
Enjoy them. Own them. Collect them. Buy them when they’re new.
POPUP FLASHSALE
Dreamscape
16/10/20
This shiny new website presents collections of paintings and drawings and prints all made over a number of years of artistic practice. As an introduction this first gallery displays an inexpensive quick temporary suite of recent prints. These are mostly lightweight musings, an aperitif or a preface to other galleries representing a wider spectrum of the painter’s interests.
On the scale of the twenty four aesthetic values articulated by Souriau, in his L’Avenir de l’esthetique, the pppup Gallery trends between what he has characterised as the Carricatural and the Picturesqe. Collections examining other aspects will be explained in due course.
The monoprint is a way of making a picture once – only one of its kind exists. Although they are produced from a repeatable original image these works are created in a manner which can’t be precisely replicated. They are wholly varied in their textures and gestural marks; each work is unique. The prints in this gallery are made by a chemical procedure using organic solvents to redistribute pigments and dyestuffs onto paper. The unpredictability of the process offers a wide degree of mark making, allowing for spontaneity and abstraction. Souriau describes the work of the potter where the power of the clay over the potter is equal to the power of the potter over the clay. The outcome cannot be predetermined. There is a playful side to this approach and a degree of parody.
Such broken repetition has its influences in the works of Robert Rauschenberg, for instance, in which a simple (often almost banal) reflexive image can be altered to explore a variety of moods. The artist worked with autobiographical pictures, bound up with childhood and personal experiences and interests, to travel back through time and consciousness. Peeling the onion of memory upon memory aspects of autobiography shared with other people are inevitably encountered. The fleeting spontaneous nature of these lightweight pictures is also tied to the nature of shared aesthetic actuality. Clearly understood references to cultural icons are an integral part of time travel and likewise underpin shared experiences. Parody requires mutual understanding.
These small prints in the popup are sketchy, casual conversation with the mostly vague landscape of memory. Their subjects are more or less general shared images – “barcarolles” – little boat rides over the lagoon. The pictures stumble in the fogs of half remembered things – the sheer pleasure of being in a place by oneself – fairground Hoppings at night in all its gaudy and ankle deep mud – the vicissitudes and vagaries of the weather– political nostalgia for a perceived time of hope – the boy of the future – nostalgia for the Big River (it stank to the heavens) – myth as jigsaw puzzle with pieces missing –Las Vegas landlady (the burlesque is a common theme through most of the ephemera works) – fading memories of la Serenissima – the labyrinth – twilight waterscapes–– the iconic lamp post – the now self parody of the mask of carnevale.
I'd like to take a sail in that boat.
Enjoy them. Own them. Collect them. Buy them when they’re new.