Dirk Skreber
Untitled
2001, Oil and tape on Canvas
300 x 170cm |
Interrupted
with harmonious composition of shapes, Skreber's luminescent
colour field is an exercise of pure aesthetics, a painting
boasting formal perfection. In Untitled Skreber uses natural
disaster as a means to negotiate the problems of painting:
the sublime contemplation of modernism is transferred into
a more frightening contemporary construct, where personal
psychology is subsumed by the public realm. Incorporating
tape to create a disjointed effect in the surface, he creates
a textural stress undulating beneath placidity of the scene.
Skreber reinvents trepidation as a normalised condition of
collective consciousness: awe as a symptom of mass-media proliferation,
spirituality as an achievement of design. |