65 x 50 cm | 25 x 19 in
Subject: People
Tags:
Dark,
Dance,
Movement,
Community
Original painting in oil on gesso panel.
"'Golden Age 2' depicts a group of hippie-like figures performing a round dance. The painting was made quickly with the loose forms reflecting the flowing movement of the subject. Bright colours have been muted by a dark purple glaze and a layer of grainy dark paint partially obscures the image. The painting makes reference to the utopian idealism of the mid-20th century counter-culture and presents an unresolved view of a hedonistic happening. Can be hung unframed."
Ed Saye’s paintings hold the strange beauty of a world still running its rituals after the meaning has shifted. Figures walk, gather, hold small suns in their hands, unaware of how altered the air has become. The colour hums at a frequency between reverence and re-coding - radiant, hyperreal, irresistible - the saturation dial turned just past natural, where colour starts to behave as energy instead of pigment. His work has evolved with rare coherence, each canvas reorganising itself from within, as though the paint were recalibrating to each new atmosphere - the pigment edging toward another register entirely.
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