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modern artists gallery presents:
ADDITIVE ABSTRACTION
13 OCTOBER – 10 NOVEMBER 2007
Artist Paul Kessling and Lexicographer David Martin risk all for Abstract Art
Additive Abstraction A seminal exhibition of Abstract Paintings by the artists Paul Kessling and David Martin will run from the 13th of October for two weeks at the Modern Artists Gallery Whitchurch on Thames Near Reading Berkshire England
Additive Abstraction is an exhibition by two artists seeking “truth” not only in their paintings but also in the context of that great question: How should one live?
Paul Kessling, an accomplished landscape painter, David Martin, an editor on the Oxford English Dictionary, resolved to dedicate themselves to the abstract in painting; this exhibition charts their respective journeys.
Taking the grounds of Rembrandts self-portraits as his starting point, Paul Kessling uses large and exposed brush strokes of expressive power arranged with sculptural directness to create totemic icons of intelligent colours. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Kessling has recently achieved a record price for his painting at Christies.
Martin, born in Los Angeles, explores the simple “language line”, the lines that shape handwritten words denuded of their linguistic holding and recast as pure visual imagery.
Taking inspiration from his passion for James Joyce, Martin has accomplished a synthesis of idea and image; a kind of visual poetry in the abstract.
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In 1953, as the story goes, Robert Rauschenberg knocked on the door
of William de Kooning to ask him for one of his drawings, which
Rauschenberg intended then to erase. Forty erasers later he produced a
work entitled Erased de Kooning Drawing, which Jasper Johns perspicaciously termed an act of "addictive subtraction".
It is from this story that Additive Abstraction is
drawn, a conscious alignment with the great legacy of Abstract Art.
Here both Paul Kessling and David Martin energetically probe, rethink,
and recontour this artistic heritage for the modern time in which they
are placed.
For more information please contact:
Gallery Curator
Olivia O’Sullivan
Modern Artists Gallery
High Street, Whitchurch on Thames Near Pangbourne Berkshire RG8 7EX
Phone: +44 (0) 118 984 5893
info@modernartistgallery.com
ADDITIVE ABSTRACTION
17 OCTOBER - 10 NOVEMBER 2007
Paul Kessling - David Martin
Sunday - Monday-Tuesday: By appointment only
Wednesday-Thursday-Friday- Saturday: 10.00 am-5.30 pm
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