Amir Chasson - Contemporary Artists

Hand Drawn Topo Map

Hand Drawn Topo Map The Saatchi Gallery
 

Amir Chasson

Hand Drawn Topo Map

2010
Oil, pencil and household paint on canvas

61 x 91 x 2cm

Stripped of numerical data or titles and rendered in household paint, they become mute abstractions hovering in space. Painting levels the playing field, enabling lines of communication and sympathy to be drawn between the two: they become (as in a work like Mat is Helping Us) a kind of double portrait. Released from language – this person’s job, this graph’s meaning – Chasson’s works are celebrations of not knowing, small assertions of mystery and doubt.
 
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