Yellow-Blue 2002-03
Oil on canvas
171 x 230cm
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We stare at the world and the world looks back. This work is about what people do, and how we exist within passivity, a state formed through a condition based in viewing, in looking on, consuming, enacting and partaking through inaction. These
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Rosemarie Trockel is a German artist and one of the most important figures in the contemporary art movement in Europe. She has gained international renown through her complex and controversial work that addresses contemporary concerns, especially those of women. "Woman" and her place in society, par ...
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The "Virtual Lingam Garden" series is an extension of my investigations into the world of the Shiva Linga. The Lingam is exoterically a symbol of male potency. Esoterically it has to do with the figure of Shiva, who has 1000 names. It represents a constant cycle of destruction and renewal. The fe ...
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Throughout my work I have been primarily interested in the suggestive possibilities between the images, and the open narrative I can create by juxtaposing the interior and exterior world beside each other. Portraits next to landscape, for example, and the tension between these two environments.
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Some artist’s work has the capacity to take you places that most never can, transporting you to allegorical destinations using poetry as its fuel. Ben Ali Ong’s imagery circumvents those stubborn inadequacies of the often clumsy language we utter, crafting vocabularies to address the sublime. There ...
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We approach Forthun's work initially as an architectural plan. The titles instruct us to consider the paintings like maps that might guide us through space. 'Through the Heads' directs our eye to the connection between harbour inside and ocean outside. The world laid out on a horizontal pane command ...
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