Event detail
From altar (boy) to art (ist)
“The more I do, the less I know, the past falls away ready to be gathered at a later date......”
An exhibitionof of three new key pieces from an ongoing body of work relating to themes of violence and the relationship between religion, art history and the
contemporary world.
Kim Wan was brought up in a strict Catholic household, a faith he was later to question and in this exhibition, the artist reflects on classical religious themes, drawing upon personal history to explore issues of belief and identify in a
fragmented 21st century.
Kim’s obsession with the materiality of paint and what Gilles Deleuze described in relation to Francis Bacon, as he ‘Body, Meat and Spirit’ of the art permeates this new work. The canvas or found object foregrounds this emotional engagement with paint, where a delicacy of gesture, or sensitivity to a surface can often underlie the overall intensity of the constructed image.
For the artist, the ritual or the process of painting, has all the immediacy of a performance , albeit one without a script,
“I can work intensively on a piece for a number of months, or I can complete it in a number of minutes”.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO:
Rossella Black, Colin Booth, Dave Meakin and Bob Penn.
http://www.kimwanart.com
