Daniel Enkaoua
dal 13/3/2007 al 4/4/2007
Segnalato da
13/3/2007
Daniel Enkaoua
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Recent Paintings. "No sentimentality is clinging to Enkaoua's paintings, nor can they be read as snapshots of a sentimental journey. It has a life of its own, without family ties".
Recent Paintings
The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art are delighted to announce the second
exhibition in London of the latest work by Daniel Enkaoua.
The German writer George Holländer writes about several of Enkaoua’s
paintings: one is of a child who stands open-mouthed - an instant is
captured, could the child be in mid song, or expressing amazement, one
cannot be sure. The moment is eternal, of pure memory. These are the
moments we really will remember, not the immobile or fluent images that
photography has substituted for our living memory. Maybe there is also a
hint of how time seemed to pass more slowly as a child. The open-mouthed
child stands in a landscape of light and colour that rolls all possible
landscapes into one primal wall where tomorrow and yesterday are one. This
describes childhood, an actual child, the painter’s child.
Another painting is of a woman standing alone, facing left, on a very big
canvas, but not big enough to comprise her field of vision. Now she has
lifted her arms and stretched them out before her. Why? The painter holds
on to this moment. He will impress it on our memory.
There is a painting of a mother and child who sit apart, the girl sits
facing the viewers, only the audience will hear her thoughts, a soliloquy,
and the mother, on the left, faces her. The painting creates a stage,
perhaps by the way it involves no other person but those two, except of
course the painter who is also the father. All the disturbing intimacy of
theatre is present.
No sentimentality is clinging to Daniel Enkaoua’s paintings, nor can they
be read as snapshots of a sentimental journey. It has a life of its own,
without family ties.
The painter is interested in light and colour; that is his craft. His art
predicts other solutions, different problems, but he does not need them
now. The justification of his work is there. It needs no precedence, no
prior judgment to be understood.
Private View Wed. 14 March 6-8pm
Marlborough Fine Art
6 Albemarle Street - London