Exhibition
Sunbursts in the City of Shadows ' John Bunker
5 May 2012 – 28 May 2012
Event times
Saturdays 2-6pm (5, 12, 19, 26 May), or by appointment 07837 571184
Address
- ASC Studios
- Empson Street
- London
- E3 3LT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus 323 from Mile End Station
- Bromley-by-Bow on the District Line
- Devons Road on the DLR
New abstract paintings and constructions for a precarious present
About
''There is something simple but powerful about exposing the structure/skeleton of a painting ' recycling its body parts ' turning it both in on itself and out on the world. 'Sunbursts in the City of Shadows' works explicitly in the time-honoured dynamic of collage that is about rapidly responding to the immediate environment with whatever is to hand (both from the street and the studio). I find working with this tension between emerging structure and imminent collapse exhilarating. This approach to painting gives me a way of sensing the outside world and allows me to focus on how I process it internally.''The twisting and the breaking of a paint covered canvas is like a kind of gestural drawing that works on the discoveries made in the improvised moment. Paradoxically this process highlights the sculptural aspects of painting as an object ' something caught in a moment of transformation.
''It is in the rubric of abstraction that artists have historically tested the limits of what a painting might be. I set discovery via the contingent and impromptu against the the history of abstract painting ' like an unstoppable force against an immovable object. I'm interested in how an abstract art can operate in the cracks and fissures in an image saturated consumer society. I would like to think that abstract languages in painting can act as a kind of cultural and personal critique.'' ' JOHN BUNKER
email: thebunkers4@btinternet.com