Jim Harris
dal 21/1/2005 al 26/2/2005
Segnalato da
21/1/2005
Jim Harris
Galerie rekord, Berlin
Solo show. Artist's themes revolve around situations from his immediate surroundings in his adoptive home city of Amsterdam: railings along canals, bare trees and the ubiquitous water. He creates pictures that seem to break through the picture surface, moving in the grey area between real and surreal/abstract space.
The concerns of British painter Jim Harris focus on space and playing with the viewer’s sense of space. To a certain extent, the two main large-format works in the exhibition function as companion pieces: while in the horizontal View from North, the viewer’s gaze is able to penetrate the picture’s depths unhindered, losing itself in the diffuse line of the horizon between sea and sky, in the square untitled canvas (railings, 2 x 2 m) it is forced into a space that rises above the viewer’s head. Although this space appears very close, it remains strangely undefined and without function. One reason for the peculiar aura of his pictures may be that they all (even the 250 cm formats) are painted en pleine air, right in front of the subject. In our media-saturated world, where photography reigns supreme, this method seems almost touching, but it has direct consequences for the impact of the pictures. Harris paints with fast, precise brushstrokes and the canvases bear the traces of this battle under the elements. His themes revolve around situations from his immediate surroundings in his adoptive home city of Amsterdam: railings along canals, bare trees and the ubiquitous water. Human figures are absent from his pictures, Harris is more interested in surfaces, reflections, colours, and above all the pictorial space itself. With his railing motifs, he creates pictures that seem to break through the picture surface, moving in the grey area between real and surreal/abstract space.
Opening: 22. Jan.05 | 7:00 pm
Galerie rekord - Brunnenstraße 162 - Berlin
Open: Wednesday - Saturday 11 – 18 h & by prior arrangement