Helen Kincaid
dal 31/10/2005 al 26/11/2005
Segnalato da
31/10/2005
Helen Kincaid
The Blue Gallery, London
Recent paintings. This new body of work is less ephemeral, exploring notions of fear and anxiety. In particular, the artist is curious about the effects of isolation or detachment - what she calls "discomfort in one's own skin" - upon perception.
Recent paintings
The Directors of the Blue Gallery are pleased to announce an exhibition
of recent paintings by Helen Kincaid.
Although still sustaining the technical virtuosity that has consistently
distinguished her work, these new paintings delve decidedly deeper into
the themes which informed her last two sell-out exhibitions. Those
paintings were delicate, often even romantic, evocations of fleeting
instances set against the dappled lights of a city at night. There was
no narrative as such or even human presence, although, luxuriating in a
cinematic technicolour, they provoked in the viewer a litany of personal
and incidental associations.
This new body of work is less ephemeral, exploring notions of fear and
anxiety. In particular, Kincaid is curious about the effects of
isolation or detachment - what she calls "discomfort in one's own skin"
- upon perception. Unremarkable and completely familiar environments
take on an alternative and disproportionate significance when viewed
through this veil of anxiety. Thus, the intimacy of a domestic interior
in the early hours, a place normally reassuring in any other context,
becomes somehow hostile and oppressive. Likewise, an ostensibly benign
and flower strewn woodland scene resonates with childhood fears and
fairy tale menace.
It is not altogether clear how this is achieved for these are
immaculately rendered paintings, often suffuse with colour. As with
Richter, they occupy an intentionally indeterminate position between
photograph as record and art as self-expression. Helen Kincaid is, as
she puts it, "interested in that precise moment when our internal world,
the psychological, fuses with our immediate environment. It's a moment
when time literally stands still, when your heightened sense of
isolation upsets the balance and has the power to transform the real
into the entirely imagined."
For further information and/or visual material,
please contact Giles Baker-Smith or Philip Godsal
on 020 7490 3833.
Private view: Tuesday 1st November 6-8.30pm
The Blue Gallery
15 Great Sutton Street - London
The gallery is open Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 11pm - 3pm. Tube: Farringdon, Barbican