50 x 60 cm | 19 x 23 in
Subject: Abstract
Tags: Wastelands
Original painting in image transfer and acrylic on canvas.
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Selected RSA and Bloomberg New Contemporary, in compositional and narrative snippets Robbie Campbells’ paintings register both fatigue and a renewed delight in the exigencies of contemporary existence. With titles funny and obscure, the obvious and unobvious pull at each other in these works, stretching the depicted scenes into the emptiness both of desolation and of potentiality. The skewed geographic colours of these unusual landscapes take on a levity: the boxed off scenes floating above, the brushwork floating on the canvas.
The banal but also epic migration of minor figures across these landscapes could be the tone of the half-hearted marketisation of one’s self and experience, it could be the reaching of a limit. The pictorial representation shatters, the shards reassemble into something new, if not something whole. In the artist's painterly milieus of questing and derivative forms of representation, authenticity can be a trap, inadequacy can be more interesting. The strange and the wonderful are cause and effect of the restlessness that marks these paintings, reanimating their stagnation.