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Release Date: 5th November 2019

Hardback. Published by Cadogan Books.

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The Austrian photographer’s glossy, large-scale photographs evoke the compositions of traditional still life and portrait painting. His subjects are suffused with all of the sensuous opulence of a Caravaggio and decked out in the trappings of modern absurdity. From paperclips and piercings to spaghetti wigs and cardboard flamingoes, his works are both bizarre and beatific.

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The book is based around twenty seven paintings chosen by the artist to represent different periods in his life as a painter. The first is from 1963 and the most recent is from 2007. The text is a 45,000 word piece by the artist. Each chapter takes one of the twenty seven paintings as its starting point, but the text as a whole builds to tell the story of how he has continued to paint about the world as he sees and experiences it, while his sight has deteriorated to the point of total blindness.

Each of the twenty seven paintings has been photographed by Peter Mann where they are hanging today. Throughout the book we are moving back and fourth between the artist at home or at work in his studio  and photographs of his work hanging in different peoples houses around the world, or in one case wrapped up in storage.

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‘Fuego y Agua’, a new exhibition of paintings by Maria Luisa Hernandez, explores the power of nature and light.

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Elise Ansel (b. 1961, New York City) translates Old Master paintings into a contemporary pictorial language. She mines art historical imagery for color and narrative structure. Her paintings use the Old Masters as points of departure. They move into abstraction by transforming the representational content, which is obfuscated if not entirely eclipsed, by her focus on color, gesture and the materiality of paint. She interrupts linear, rational readings so that the real subject becomes the substance and surface of oil paint, the range of its applications, and the ways in which it can be used to celebrate life.

Central to Ansel’s project is her practice of translating Old Master paintings into a contemporary pictorial language through a female lens. She uses an idiom of energetic gestural abstraction to mine art historical imagery for colour and narrative structure, abstracting and interrupting the representational content, in order to excavate and transform meanings and messages embedded in the works from which her paintings spring.

Comprised of over fifteen paintings, the exhibition includes responses to masterpieces such as Titian’s Rape of Europa (1560-62). Ansel transforms scenes of violence against women into images of consensual pleasure. ‘Painters of that era used mythological content to explore eroticism,’ Ansel says. ‘My attack is on sexism, not on sex. My intent is to reclaim the erotic energy and discard the violent coercion. In Titian’s painting, the strength of the male aggressor is re-enforced by the agency of the male painter. I reverse the polarity of that power dynamic. The heretofore silent object (of the male gaze) is granted agency and becomes the subject, the author of the narrative, which she has the power to change.’ At face value Ansel’s work is not overtly political or feminist but by applying her contemporary female perspective to centuries-old male works of art, Ansel addresses art history’s hegemonic, and often misogynistic, narrative, as well as the continued gender inequality in our society. Says the artist: ‘I flip the orientation and use abstraction to interrupt a destructive narrative and transform it into a revel of colour, movement and asymmetrical balance, building on what’s already there to create something new.’

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A key inspiration for Lock is the written word, in particular the work of the dramatists Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. As the latter famously said, ‘Underneath what is said, something else is being said,’ and the ideas invoked in that observation – notions of double meanings, loss, discovery and the overlapping of past and present – are key to understanding Lock’s entire oeuvre; in essence, each work is a meditation on the ambiguities of life revealed through abstraction.

Comprised of fifteen medium and large-scale paintings, as well as sculptures and a suite of works on paper, this is the artist’s largest presentation to date and his third with the gallery. The paintings are rendered in Lock’s trademark style. A canvas is prepared with gesso onto which layers of acrylic and household paint are applied and then manipulated – sanded, stained, scorched, sealed and torn – and also treated to the effects of a heat gun. The artist sees each canvas as a battleground, with the materials at war with one another. These collisions are orchestrated to some extent, but there is also a pervading element of chance and unpredictability, with paint colours changing due to unplanned physical and chemical interactions.

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The Austrian photographer’s glossy, large-scale photographs evoke the compositions of traditional still life and portrait painting. His subjects are suffused with all of the sensuous opulence of a Caravaggio and decked out in the trappings of modern absurdity. From paperclips and piercings to spaghetti wigs and cardboard flamingoes, his works are both bizarre and beatific.

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Rayer-Smith’s paintings are influenced both by the emotional rawness and mark making of Abstract Expressionism, and by the balance, light and movement of Renaissance compositions. These are layered with his own experiences to create new visual paths.

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Juliette Paull’s most recent body of work explores a continuously unfolding visual connection to the landscape within Baroque painting. The notion of romanticism and the sublime is of particular significance in the 18th century frescoes by Tiepolo. Drawing inspiration from these has opened up a personal dialogue with the historical aesthetic and with the dramatic landscape that the artist inhabits.

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Janise Yntema has exhibited internationally, including the Smithsonian. Collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Institute and Yale University Art Gallery. She creates her beautifully tranquil pieces by using wax encaustic.

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Within her highly developed visual language, Tarr explores the limits of her canvas; each painting is an authentic world of its own. Her creations are tangible and conceptual, borne of relationships between colour and texture.

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Terrell James, a well-known Texan contemporary artist, paints the natural world through a unique abstract lens. James’ work explores landscape layout and the nameless shapes, patterns and breathy washes that configure her paintings create a colour-pop dynamism.

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Lock paints viscerally. Using blowtorches and electric sanders as well as the brush, he ages and wears his canvasses down, making them seem all the more natural. At its core, his work conveys the passage of time; colours, movement and characters that are half-recalled, uncertain.

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This book contains the complete catalogue of works by Sargy Mann and Euan Uglow that were displayed during the 2016 exhibition presented by The Collection and Usher Gallery in Lincoln, UK.

Essays included in this book are contributed by Ashley Gallant (former Collections Access Officer), Jenny Gleadell (Curator), Robert Pepperell, Jo Volley, and George Mather.

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Elise Ansel (b. 1961, New York City) translates Old Master paintings into a contemporary pictorial language. She mines art historical imagery for color and narrative structure. Her paintings use the Old Masters as points of departure. They move into abstraction by transforming the representational content, which is obfuscated if not entirely eclipsed, by her focus on color, gesture and the materiality of paint. She interrupts linear, rational readings so that the real subject becomes the substance and surface of oil paint, the range of its applications, and the ways in which it can be used to celebrate life.

Her work deconstructs pictorial language and authorial agency in order to excavate and liberate meanings buried beneath the surface of the works from which her paintings spring. Old Master paintings were, for the most part, created by men for men. Abstraction allows her to interrupt this one sided narrative and transform it into a sensually capacious non-narrative form of visual communication that embraces multiple points of view.

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Sargy Mann (29 May 1937 – 5 April 2015) was a British Painter and one of the most extraordinary artists of recent time. Both a landscape and figurative painter, his diverse works are recognisable by their bright colour scheme and focus on light. Although deeply influenced by Cezanne and Bonnard his paintings attain a remarkable originality. Mann was undeterred by his failing vision and continued finding new ways of seeing, even through his final complete blindness.

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Sargy Mann (29 May 1937 – 5 April 2015) was a British Painter and one of the most extraordinary artists of recent time. Both a landscape and figurative painter, his diverse works are recognisable by their bright colour scheme and focus on light. Although deeply influenced by Cezanne and Bonnard his paintings attain a remarkable originality. Mann was undeterred by his failing vision and continued finding new ways of seeing, even through his final complete blindness.

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Sargy Mann (29 May 1937 – 5 April 2015) was a British Painter and one of the most extraordinary artists of recent time. Both a landscape and figurative painter, his diverse works are recognisable by their bright colour scheme and focus on light. Although deeply influenced by Cezanne and Bonnard his paintings attain a remarkable originality. Mann was undeterred by his failing vision and continued finding new ways of seeing, even through his final complete blindness.

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Sargy Mann (29 May 1937 – 5 April 2015) was a British Painter and one of the most extraordinary artists of recent time. Both a landscape and figurative painter, his diverse works are recognisable by their bright colour scheme and focus on light. Although deeply influenced by Cezanne and Bonnard his paintings attain a remarkable originality. Mann was undeterred by his failing vision and continued finding new ways of seeing, even through his final complete blindness.

Buy now for £8.50 (+ £1.50 for 1st class shipping)

Sargy Mann (29 May 1937 – 5 April 2015) was a British Painter and one of the most extraordinary artists of recent time. Both a landscape and figurative painter, his diverse works are recognisable by their bright colour scheme and focus on light. Although deeply influenced by Cezanne and Bonnard his paintings attain a remarkable originality. Mann was undeterred by his failing vision and continued finding new ways of seeing, even through his final complete blindness.

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