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For Denise #394; Like you “like” it Denise, 1960
Exhibition
Ray Parker - Simple Paintings
28 Feb 2019 – 29 Mar 2019
Event times
on appointment
Cost of entry
free
Address
- Via Giovanni Ventura 5
- Milan
Lombardy - 20134
- Italy
The gallery Studio Gariboldi is pleased to present an important selection of works from the Simple Paintings series, created by Parker between 1958 and 1965 and characterized by big white canvases with ethereal, colorful and floating forms.
About
Parker’s working method was improvisational and quite aggressive. There was no plan of action or preliminary sketches, only a bare canvas tacked to the wall in front of him.
The value of the “gesture” painting was not so much its newness or radicality but most of all its method of self-exploration. Spreading the color to the “fullness of volume”, Parker was able to record his touch on the pictorial surface as well as his feelings and sudden changes of the creative process. The distinctive character of his painting, with the colors mixed directly on the canvas like it was a palette, depended not only on hue of the moment, but also on amount, proportion, luminosity, texture and state of mind of the artist. The working attitude of the painter was critical and suspicious of anything appearing familiar to him in the painting and for this reason there were infinite possibilities of forms which seem to separate themselves from the canvas, taking each their own character: horizontal or vertical, stacked, adjoining or separate, still, monumental or floating.
