Alan Mitchell
Paintings
Weekend Viewing
opening/vernissage
Saturday 10 May 18:00-21:00
Sunday 11 May 11:00-18:00
Hosted by
Kaoru Tashiro
Rue Louis Hap 50-B
1040-Brussels
THE FUGITIVE IMAGE
This series of
oil paintings, developed during a four month sabbatical from St. John’s
International School, and painted on wood with surfaces built up from several
layers of sanded gesso, is based on the direct observation of carefully
prepared collages of torn paper that incorporate fragments of photographic
imagery. Inspired by the tradition of trompe l’oeil, they explore the illusive
and transitory nature of both the surface and the frame and the fugitive nature
of both paper and image. Painting a series of frames inside frames I aim to
invoke both the presence and the absence of the image simultaneously and
challenge the viewer to examine pictorial conventions and representation in
order to question the nature of real illusions and the illusory nature of
reality.
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