Michael Raedecker - Contemporary Artists

Ins and Outs

Michael Raedecker, ins and outs The Saatchi Gallery
 

Michael Raedecker

ins and outs

2000, Acrylic and Thread on Canvas

198 x 330cm

ins and outs is a sublime dream home. Steely grey in the dead of night, manicured in the expansive landscape, trees in a straight line, boulders placed decoratively for maximum effect: it might be the retirement retreat of a Silicone Valley millionaire, the kind of person who would bother to have their trees pruned into perfect orbs, who'd insist that their sky be as delicate as a Japanese watercolour. Raedecker's paintings are always little seeds of gossip. Drawn to this house by the impossible intensity of the light - made up of countless tiny pink and yellow threads - the first instinct is that something suspicious is happening within.
 
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