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Accumulated Nothingness' 2012
Acrylic on canvas, and found table
At first glance, This undefinable hybrid of painting and sculpture appears to have been vandalised or flagrantly abused. Mangled stretchers, slashed canvases, twisted and violate. Encompassing the table the piece lays on the gallery floor like some sort of macabre trophies. A paradox is formed by the apparent deliberate and systematic desecration of the canvases, which informs the end result. Emotionally raw, yet canny and sharply ironic, the piece confronts the 'problem' with painting by incorporating its very destruction into the work itself. "The moment I cut through the canvas I get rid of the grandiosity of painting."Violent, unapologetic and darkly humorous, the work unabashedly exposes a visceral emotionalism, breaking the barriers of the established norms of painting. Implicit is the sense that a scene of frenetic violent activity has just taken place leaving in its wake the strangely paradoxical feeling of spent energy and a sense of calm; a visual catharsis.
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| Author |
| Matthew Lord , 16 yrs |
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| School |
| Darrick Wood School |
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