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The works of the British artist Bobby Dowler couple a bold, forceful use of colour with a process of assembling, cutting and overlayering materials that challenges the narrativity and illusionism normally associated with conventional painting. The uneven brushwork, the fluctuating density of impasto and the array of materials he uses in his compositions are counterpointed by the somewhat desacralized geometric forms—quadrilaterals in the case at hand—that balance the prevailing thrust of fluidity and chance.
By incorporating pre-worked materials and discarded paintings by friends as well as other amateur artists—often left to languish, victims of the changing schools of painterly thought and fashions—Dowler not only works with the remnants of post-industrial culture and an economy of means, but also splits open the timeframe in the resulting painting-objects. The succession of layers and windows would, at once, seem to replicate the dynamism of the artist’s self-imposed...More
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The works of the British artist Bobby Dowler couple a bold, forceful use of colour with a process of assembling, cutting and overlayering materials that challenges the narrativity and illusionism normally associated with conventional painting. The uneven brushwork, the fluctuating density of impasto and the array of materials he uses in his compositions are counterpointed by the somewhat desacralized geometric forms—quadrilaterals in the case at hand—that balance the prevailing thrust of fluidity and chance.
By incorporating pre-worked materials and discarded paintings by friends as well as other amateur artists—often left to languish, victims of the changing schools of painterly thought and fashions—Dowler not only works with the remnants of post-industrial culture and an economy of means, but also splits open the timeframe in the resulting painting-objects. The succession of layers and windows would, at once, seem to replicate the dynamism of the artist’s self-imposed...More
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