Exhibition

Stephen Buckley: Selected Works 1972-1991

21 Apr 2010 – 26 May 2010

Regular hours

Wednesday
10:30 – 17:30
Thursday
10:30 – 17:30
Friday
10:30 – 17:30

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Austin / Desmond fine Art

London, United Kingdom

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  • Holborn / Tottenham Ct. Rd
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Stephen Buckley is widely acknowledged as one of the most gifted and adventurous artists of his generation. His use of a constructed three-dimensional base, often using interconnected panels, pioneered a new British exploration of the traditional pictorial space. Buckley has never accepted the imposition of any limitations on the materials and techniques used in creating his work. Any one painting or section can include wood, stitched canvas, ropes, piping and household objects incorporated into the structure, then over painted, stencilled and collaged creating a complex visual texture. The social commentator Michael Bracewell has written: When you look at a painting by Stephen Buckley what do you see? The initial impact is reminiscent of a sudden chord — at times orchestral, brooding in a minor key, but more usually sharp, bright and strident, like the sudden and electrifying opening notes from an expert rhythm section. And then you reach the surface of the work. The layers and edges of the applied paint appear soft and malleable, shaped into the angle of a corner, the ridges of which are then further defined by the contours of an underlying material — a thread of heavy wire, or cardboard tubing, or a length of cord. What appears at first impression to be a reasonably simple combination of vivid, essentially primary colours, separated within grid like patterns, geometrically defined, becomes on closer inspection — transforming almost alchemically before the viewers gaze — a riotous confluence of surging, swirling, effervescently vibrant shades and traces and hues."

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