COLOSSUS
Niagara Galleries
8th October to 2nd November 2013
The thirty two new works that make up Colossus deal with extremes. In these works, the landscape has been pared back to its essential forms as heightened atmospheric conditions take to the fore. Plumes of smoke become a heavy presence, billowing from craters and out of the ground, concealing figures and distorting the landscape. A lone fisherman is barely detectable through the crashing waves that threaten to envelop him. In other works, it is as if these forces have been given human form as monolithic figures dwarf their settings. While some benignly survey their surroundings, others offer a more menacing presence as they take up a boxing stance or stride towards a tiny rowing figure, making palpable the vulnerability one faces when confronted with the intensity of the elements.
Contact Niagara Galleries for further information.
|
