Rob Leech
Royal Academy, Fine Art
Robert Leech’s work is gorgeous and excessive and knows it. His shamelessly pleasurable, seemingly solid floor-based blocks of fluid colour point to disco and minimalism, but most of all to the pleasure of looking. His impossible formations of huge, malleable brushstrokes appear to jump out from the surface they are stuck to, dissolving ideas of a fixed space and a fixed state.
For his spill pieces, Leech has filmed a falling mass of liquid paint, capturing an overlooked, yet special in-between moment. Using computer software this moment is played with and amplified in various ways; colours are altered and intensified; the speed of the fall is altered the paint is never allowed to splash, holding the moment forever.
The following text is taken from a conversation with the artist.
Rob: Yes I do. I will be honest to say that I have not read a hell of a lot of Delueuze and Guattari but from what I have gathered I enjoy. I like the idea of stable identities as a harmful illusion and their celebration of difference, chaos, and on going process of change. Also how they reject the idea that the psych is naturally whole, uniformed or coherent. I defiantly see these ideas arising in my work, and in terms of my self, I have a flux of desires and intensit...
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