Mast-erpi-ece
2006
cut canvas
80x80cm |
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Masterpiece (mirrored)
2006
cut canvas
80x80cm |
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Masterpiece (black)
2006
cut vinyl cloth
80x80cm |
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Masterpiece (yellow)
2006
cut vinyl cloth
80x80cm |
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Masterpiece (turquoise)
2006
cut vinyl cloth
80x80cm |
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The nature of painting is manifold. It’s as much about content as it is about retinal pattern. It’s about other worlds where a different logic, pictorial logic, rules.
Technology has created a different climate and criteria for the artist. The artist’s hand wears a very different glove from the craftsman’s glove of his forebears.
The strongest aesthetic experience I have had was the image of a slightly rotund young man, with tufts of weed coming from his mouth, as I swam down to rescue him. Everything was in focus...I knew he was dead before I touched him. It was a truly beautiful sight that disappeared abruptly on contact.
Yet history shows us how artists have always begged, borrowed and stolen from each other, with Manet and Picasso being the champions of how to take another artist’s idea/work and turn it into their own. This ability should be called ‘assisted innovation’.
Artworks have no feelings.
