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Jonathan Freemantle
New works: an exhibition of paintings, photographs, prints and installations (sculptural & sound)
Opening event & Artist talk: 02/12/2011, 18.00 uur
Exhibition: 30/11/2011 – 04/12/2011, 11.00 – 18.00 daily
Finissage: 04/12/2011, 16.00 uur
“When Picasso first saw the ancient cave paintings at Lascaux he declared: “We have invented nothing…” This collection of works gathers fragments from my exploration through and into the multiple veiled ‘moment’. My enquiries are underpinned by my suspicion that all linear time is illusory and so the works draw from fleeting experiences of clarity and luminosity where all time appears compressed into one single moment.
Using gathered images, gestures and sounds, my work seeks to illuminate the spaces in between the corporeal and the intuitive, to chase the shadow left by the perceived physical. I look for the glow in an ordinary moment, and the underlying structure of things.
I work from private moments of heightened consciousness, remembered. Moments flavoured with an intimation of a wider reality and yet often so familiar, like coming home. I look for these flashing sparks of waking amidst the malaise.
My work is as much about the physicality of paint and printed image as it is about the illusion the image suggests. I straddle a world I long to know and one I love to inhabit.”
Jonathan Freemantle is a South African Artist living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Website: www.jonathanfreemantle.com |
