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Pruner, 2016 Charcoal, glue, pigment and oil stick on canvas , 180 x 135cm
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My Mum and Dad, 2016 Charocal, glue, pigment and oil stick on canvas, 140 x 100cm
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Blockhard, 2016 Charcoal, glue, pigment and oil stick on canvas, 35 x 30cm
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Beside the Boot the Truncheon Rest, 2016 Charcoal, pigment glue, oil on canvas, 180 x 135cm
Exhibition
GRANT FOSTER - Ground, Image, Sky
27 Apr 2017 – 3 Jun 2017
Event times
Wed – Sat, 12 – 6pm
Address
- 107 Essex Road
- Canonbury
- London
- N1 2SL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 38, 56, 73, 341, 476 (and on neary Upper Street 4, 19, 30, 43)
- Angel, Highbury & Islington
- Essex Road
Tintype presents Ground, Figure, Sky, Grant Foster’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
About
Ground, Figure, Sky suggests that facts can be arranged vertically. As in the realm of archaeology, Foster’s deep excavations reveal tangential truths and counter narratives. Scraps of dirty canvas are hung like flags high throughout the gallery - single word slogans, that toy with the myth of certainty.
Foster’s spellbinding paintings are best understood within the parameters of an historical and political framework; the old collides with the new, the popular intersects with the classical. Nostalgia, hysteria and beauty, war against each other, like superheroes playing chicken.
Pruner, 2016, imagines a future, perhaps a thousand years from now. A striding figure is
a gameshow contestant tasked to find and cull the last remaining trees on the planet. Executed in simple Neo-Classical lines, Pruner, is social satire – a sardonic sci-fi fantasy, indicative of how Foster sees the past as a tool to attempt understand the future.
