LA PEINTURE EST PRESQUE ABSTRAITE

18 Nov-23 Dec 2009

Overview

This exhibition is the second leg of a touring show from the ‘Transpalette’ Art Centre in Bourges, France. International abstract painting: Xavier Drong, Olivier Gourvil, Geoffroy Gross, Jane Harris, Richard Kirwan, Daniel Sturgis, Claude Temin-Vergez, Nicolas Royer. The work in focus emerges from the genre of ‘abstraction’ yet makes use of everything representational - images, figures, icons, ornaments, screens, and signs – with a kind of distance that they all share. Far from mere repetition, they loop, clone and use aliases… These works enjoy playing equally with the pictorial and graphic codes of art as well as those of our contemporary environment.