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The Glass Room Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Other
Size: 133.9 W x 59.1 H x 1 D in
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This painting draws inspiration from a glass room within the villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe’s in 1929. The events that took place in this room echo greater themes in history with which my practice is concerned. I am interested in how history’s existential extremes; promise and disaster, evil and banality so often rub shoulders. A room full of light, intended to bring nature inside and people together, was corrupted when the Nazis forced its Jewish owners and inhabitants into exile. The painting exists both before and after, trying to capture visually both a feeling of hope as well as a sense of foreboding or trauma. At first the painting appears lyrical and floating, the palette is muted and contemplative. However, you soon notice a smashed window and its shards scattered on the floor. The bed and the table seem not only floating but displaced, fragmented and ruptured. It is as though a gust of wind has temporarily lifted the room and its contents and everything is about to come crashing back down to earth.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:133.9 W x 59.1 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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My year spent in Vienna has had a tremendous impact upon my practice. Reading and exploring its history in the context of my own Jewish heritage has provided a wealth of narratives that are still nourishing my work. As opposed to any overt narrative, my work seeks to create a visual tension, a suggestion or invocation of something that has just occurred or of an impending danger. My work often features spaces within spaces: paintings, doorways, screens and reflections that hint at new spaces without fully depicting them, creating tension from a broken narrative. Curious floating forms look displaced creating a visual kink that transcends what at first might appear to be a polite drawing room ambience. Another aspect of my work involves the appropriation or quotation from art historical references. I am interested in the way history and art history run alongside each other. By extracting painting ideologies and re-introducing them into a new context they can take on new meanings and associations. My paintings seek to question both the act of painting and its possibilities now, as well as asking the viewer to think about a moment in history with a very long shadow.
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