Gardens of War 2003-2005
The present body of work "Gardens of War" is based on a set of dynamic gestures (using strong emotive colour contrast). they are derived from sketches, which are painted on site and they are a direct reaction after being fascinated by the black and white photographs from a book of the same name.*
They use strong abstracted colour and shape to produce a space which is strongly suggestive of a place,a kind of garden, in which dynamic gestures create a tension and produce a certain beauty, (A kind of place where we don't know what's happening in the space behind the image...a zone of activity).
They use strong abstracted colour and shape to produce a space which is strongly suggestive of a place,a kind of garden, in which dynamic gestures create a tension and produce a certain beauty, (A kind of place where we don't know what's happening in the space behind the image...a zone of activity).
*Gardens of War by Robert Gardener and Karl G. Heider- Introduction by Margret Mead. In 1961 the Film Study Center of Harvard University's Peabody Museum mounted an expedition to record this pristine world in the Highlands of western New Guinea, the culture of the Dugum Dani (the first full photographic record).
100cmx69cm sold/ Australia
100cmx75cm sold/Germany
100cmx150cm sold/Australia
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150cmx100cm sold/ USA
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