art fairs 2016
Raster at LISTE Art Fair Baselbooth 0/10/1June 14-19 2016www.liste.ch
Burgweg 15CH-4058 Basel
The daily taming of hair is an act of civilization, battling the frizzy and curly unruliness of the body.
The conversion of a language from one script to another is a routine act of alphabet penitence. The reason we do so hurriedly—with a dose of chagrin, holding our noses, on the back of a scrap of paper—stems in part from transliteration’s maligned status. One thing is clear: translation it is not. Alas, transliteration is the trashier younger sibling of translation, its more prestigious, older sister.
Hung and Tart features a heart that becomes a tongue, enacting a synapsis, or short cut between the conception of speech, symbolic and sincere, and its delivery.
A new series of nocturnal landscapes is an example of a maximal synergy between the painter’s means and his subject.
Brilliant studies of smoke drifting over an extinguished wick.
Rawlings is inspired by random visual material found in newspapers and magazines but also online. The motif of a clip art rose is banal yet very popular, and was used by the artist a few times. In this painting however it was supposed to look like a specimen from a botanical painting book.