Jock McFadyen
dal 26/7/2012 al 31/8/2012
Segnalato da
26/7/2012
Jock McFadyen
Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh
The Ability to Cling.... a retrospective. As an exhibition title of 1979 suggests - Paintings, Drawings and Titles - his art was as much to do with language as image.
The title - The Ability to Cling.... - comes from a schematic image from 1977, the year Jock McFadyen graduated from Chelsea School of Art. This and other work in the show from this period are humorous yet edgy caricatures. As an exhibition title of 1979 suggests - Paintings, Drawings and Titles - his art was as much to do with language as image.
In 1981 McFadyen was awarded the second residency at the National Gallery, London. The focus on social marginalisation in his pictures of the 1980s reveal the influence not only of his heroes, Walter Sickert and L S Lowry, but also that of the gruesome faces and contorted bodies of the German Expressionists. A commission in 1990 from the Artistic Records Committee at the Imperial War Museum saw McFadyen shift from two dimensions to three. His commission to document the demise and aftermath of the removal of the Berlin wall - Fragments from Berlin (Imperial War Museum, 1991) - resulted in a massive sculpture installation. Figures from that show will be included in this retrospective.
In 1991-2 Kenneth McMillan approached McFadyen to design a theatre set and costumes for The Judas Tree for The Royal Opera House. From this point he painted depopulated landscapes. McFadyen has looked beyond the city to the countryside too. In Orkney he searched out the scuttled remains of Inganess; in Uist, he discovered the rusting remains of a bus stranded in a peat bog - all under big skies and in wild isolation. Different landscapes, same vision.
Image: Kill Mathew Barney
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Caledonia Armstrong Gallery Assistant +44 0131 5574050 caledonia@bournefineart.com
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