Exhibition
Aberrations - paintings by Ian Ball
5 Sep 2016 – 24 Sep 2016
Event times
Midday to 6pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 139 Whitfield street
- London
London - W1T 5EN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Warren Street
An exhibition of modern paintings exploring the gap between abstract and figurative art based on photographic aberrations.
About
The paintings are derived predominately from photographs, images that are discarded by others as failed photographs, but which Ian transforms through the act of painting into striking new forms. The artist is a kind of conduit in this case, a medium through which the paintings come to be rather than an author in the strict sense. The images are appropriated and undergo a process akin to alchemy, where the end result is often either a success or failure, not an exact copy, but a new construction of the original image.
The paintings span a bridge between abstraction and realism, the images chosen often resemble the abstract paintings of Rothko or Richter but they are grounded in the reality of the chemical process of light being captured by film. Blurs and dysfunctions of the camera are laboured over and recreated in the works, asking questions about the nature of reality and perception. Is the image captured by the camera more vital than the world as apprehended by our subjective mind and senses?