Roland Schimmel : It exists I don't know where

14 Oct-3 Dec 2013

Overview

The study of optics – an investigation into both the mechanics and implications of ‘seeing’ – is a central concern, something of a golden thread in fact, through the tangled and morphic landscape of what is broadly termed ‘Art History’. From the examples of perspectival anamorphosis in the early Renaissance to studies on optical defocusing as applied in works by James Turrell in the 1960s, the subject of visual perception has captured our imagination almost as much as the image itself.The upcoming exhibition at HCFA presents an artist, Roland Schimmel, who deftly explores the hallucinatory, ecstatic qualities of our visual perception. The works themselves – air-brush painted canvases – create fantastic difficulties for the eye seeking to ‘know’ the image.