James English Leary, Patric Sandri
Donnerstag, 04. Mai 2017 - 19:00 Uhr
Galerie Kandlhofer
JAMES ENGLISH LEARY "THE BURSTING GRAPE"
The paintings of James English Leary (*1982 Chicago, US) pit figuration against abstraction invoking metaphors that nurse (and satirize) camp-psychological states in the viewer.
Rather than ?painting the paintings? Leary constructs them out of painting?s component parts (stretcher, fabric, color, in that order) often employing a shaped substrate.
The resulting image-objects and their buoyant overtures towards a ?language? humorously engage the problematics of how to ?read? a painting and conjure the art experience as a slapstick rorschach, a drama of legibility, which hinges on the impossibility of making a shape that doesn?t eventually refer back to something of this world.
PATRIC SANDRI "PAINT(H)INGS"
The exhibition "PAINT(H)INGS" features new works of Patric Sandri (*1979 Uster, CH) including compositions with lines, colors and mathematical concepts.
Sandri questions the role and function of the painting and extends it into a three-dimensionality by using the stretcher frame. The construction of the individual stretcher frames is based on a mathematical concept of interlacing and overlapping, followed by the application of color.
The conditions of painting are revealed, the primary colors applied on the wood-constructions mix with each-other, shimmer, reflect and radiate through transparent fabrics onto their background, giving the artist´s works a sculptural character.
Patric Sandri manages to develop non-figurative pictorial objects in a unique way, revealing their meaning through the act of observation.