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HANY ARMANIOUS
JIMMY BAKER
MICHAEL BELL-SMITH
OLGA CHERNYSHEVA
SIMONE GILGES
VIOLET HOPKINS
DAVID NOONAN
ESTER PARTEGĂ€S
STERLING RUBY
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JONATHAN DELACHAUX and LIZZIE FITCH
July 3 - August 1, 2008
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Foxy Production presents Geneva-based painter Jonathan Delachaux and Philadelphia-based sculptor Lizzie Fitch in an exhibition that places the figure within revealing new fields of association. Both artists create identities that seem to be unraveling before our eyes, caught within ever tangling narrative threads.
Jonathan Delachaux portrays characters within extended storylines that explore the mythological resonance of the figure within the painted scene. He uses a highly unusual technique: painting on plastic film in reverse, with the final layer of paint applied being, in effect, the background; he then places the painted plastic on a canvas and, when dry, removes the plastic to reveal a painting with an uncannily flat, photographic quality. In this series of paintings, Delachaux's characters build a Golem, the man-made creature of clay first cited in the Talmud. But rather than being the subject of a precise moral narrative, the Golem in Delachaux's works literally muddies canvases, the scenes upon them, and the relationship between canvas and scene. The works move from almost cinematic depictions to stylized, impressionistic ... [ Read all ] |
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