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Espacio Minimo: PHILIP JONES. House of Cards - 18 Sept 2008 to 30 Oct 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Philip Jones, The Eclipse, 2007-8
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PHILIP JONES House of Cards 16th September to 25 October, 2008 Private view: Thursday, 16th September 2008, at 20:00 Espacio M�nimo gallery opens its 2008-2009 season with British artist PHIL JONES�s first Spanish solo-show. The show is made up of 5 large format paintings, and a similar number of smaller works expressly made for the show, which were started in 2007 and completed in 2008, and will be collected under the title House of Cards. PHILIP JONES paintings are atypical, strange and mysterious, and portray a savage and colourful world. Theatrical and chameleonic characters pose within an enigmatic universe of patterns, geometry, and fluid painting. It is not difficult to track the diverse influences upon these works, from James Esnor to Willem de Kooning, from Bonnard to Josef von Stemberg, from Tal R to Picasso, from Vuillard to Cecil Beaton, from Hockney to No�l Coward, from Richard Lindner to Tallulah Bankhead� In these works we find a structure of patterns and symbols, a fragile structure that evokes characters from playing cards. They are iconic, life size figures that pose histrionically as if taken from a 1930�s romantic comedy. PHILIP JONES recreates a universe plagued with dandies, poets, models, and actors. Whilst impeccably dressed and excessively made-up these ambivalent, sophisticated and disturbing creatures inhabit a scenery of fragmented light. They are hermetic figures with hollow gazes, refined aesthetes, slightly perverse, and presumably immoral. The artist uses the paint in different ways to suggest different types of light or surface, but also different feelings or emotional states creating intimate ambiguous dramas of the human condition. The paint becomes emotional material, analogous to states of mind, or emotional perceptions. His paintings are filled with sculptural figures, with optical illusions that turn into liquid paint, into light and shadow, to create a decorative, mutant world like a catalogue of patterns, colours, and forms, or a plague of signs, markings, and traces. He uses imagined symbols, metaphorical fantasies to produce dramatized moments of poetic evocations. He invents an artificial world in which elegance and coarseness, refinement and brutality live side by side. Seen as a group, the paintings that make up House of Cards offer an exciting impression, a drama of colour, of opulence, and of trauma. |
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