Nigel Cooke - Black Mimosa: New York - September 2015, Pace

Cooke’s newest body of work was created over the course of two years and demonstrates an evolution of techniques as well as a more nuanced relationship to abstraction. Cooke constructs hallucinatory space in his paintings, most of which are occupied by a solitary figure. His landscapes initially see...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Pace London 2015
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Zusammenfassung:Cooke’s newest body of work was created over the course of two years and demonstrates an evolution of techniques as well as a more nuanced relationship to abstraction. Cooke constructs hallucinatory space in his paintings, most of which are occupied by a solitary figure. His landscapes initially seem grounded in our world but upon closer investigation reveal themselves to be fantastical, as if imagined by the protagonists that inhabit them. For instance, the eponymous cascade in the painting Frozen Waterfall, 2015, coheres into the apparition of a skull that looms menacingly over a masked skier. All of Cooke’s subjects stem from real life—his autobiography, live models or photographic and literary sources—but metamorphose away from these everyday referents as they become realized in paint and enmeshed in the landscape of the work.00Cooke’s impasto surfaces are punctuated with masked, recessed areas that are then weathered and eroded with subsequent washes of paint. Radiating lines drawn in oil stick across the canvas both infuse the work with a sense of dynamism and energy and incise layers into the thick oil paint. Cooke continues in this vein until the images materialize; he likens his method of painting to processes of thinking: reflecting, imagining, intuiting.
Beschreibung:49 Seiten 28 cm
ISBN:9781909406179

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