SHOES AND STARS, Eva Bosch paintings 1997 to now

25 Sep-25 Oct 2024

PV 25 Sep 2024, 6-8.30pm

Eva Bosch, After Mona Lisa, 2019, oil on canvas. Credit: the artist

Overview

…..from exhibition essay by Ansel Krut

…’Each of Bosch’s paintings starts, and ends, with stories that are both personal and universal. Her protagonists are the shapes, the forms, she uses. They look pre-existent, as though drawn from a bank of universal human archetypes, but actually, they evolve through hours in the studio, morphing on the canvas, gaining and losing heads, swapping genders, growing limbs, until they find themselves and their relationships one to the other. Evocative and suggestive, operating through symbols and mood rather than through linear narrative each image unfolds for the artist as she paints, finding its way through her memories and influences, coalescing around her expressive urgency…..’

….and from Matthew Tree

….’Eva Bosch’s work, diverse though it is, has at least one unifying factor which could, perhaps, best be first described in negative terms: there is nothing fanciful or capriciously superfluous about it. On the contrary, in every painting, through the use of shape, colour and - on occasion -suddenly recognisable images, it is crystal clear that everything (and every thing) that she has painted, has been done so out of absolute necessity. At the risk of using an overused word, her work is driven, that is to say, mandatory for the artist herself, and therefore compulsive and compelling for the onlooker….’

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