The Lightness of Being
Nicodim Gallery•Jul 20, 2024 — Sep 14, 2024
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Painting is an artform which finds its existence questioned more than any other – first declared dead almost two centuries ago by Paul Delaroche after seeing daguerreotype photographs for the first time. In spite of this, artists continue to produce paintings and viewers continue to look at them, in search of the ways in which the medium is capable of helping us to see beyond the implied certainty of the image.
In fact, it’s this dialogue with which The Lightness of Being is concerned – what exactly painting does for an image. The illusory surface of the painting creates an opportunity for an image to be understood (or misunderstood) to a greater extent than it otherwise could have been, the object and subject of the painting exist in harmony with one another. The painting essentially acts as a mediator between reality and the interpretation of the viewer, in essence, what the image feels like is expanded beyond anything else.
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The Lightness of Being
Nicodim Gallery•Jul 20, 2024 — Sep 14, 2024
Press release
Painting is an artform which finds its existence questioned more than any other – first declared dead almost two centuries ago by Paul Delaroche after seeing daguerreotype photographs for the first time. In spite of this, artists continue to produce paintings and viewers continue to look at them, in search of the ways in which the medium is capable of helping us to see beyond the implied certainty of the image.
In fact, it’s this dialogue with which The Lightness of Being is concerned – what exactly painting does for an image. The illusory surface of the painting creates an opportunity for an image to be understood (or misunderstood) to a greater extent than it otherwise could have been, the object and subject of the painting exist in harmony with one another. The painting essentially acts as a mediator between reality and the interpretation of the viewer, in essence, what the image feels like is expanded beyond anything else.
In this new series of paintings,...More
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