New work by Andrew Szczech is on display: abstract painting with an investigative language of its own, which sold out at his MA show last year.
Pigments – eroding, sedimenting, tectonic – trace his paintings, in meandering, looping mosaics, or swathes like layers of water. The eye plunges into the contemplated object and drifts across its surface. The colours of these works float between being organic and more painterly, occupying an amniotic zone. The aesthetic is historical in the same sense as British artist Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures or electronic musician William Basinski’s seminal compositions are: as a poetry of dissolution. The artist returns again and again to notions of permanence and impermanence.
These abstractions have the minimalism and sophistication that’s at the centre of interior designer Axel Vervoordt’s philosophy: “We’re all products of the past, but we must also take inspiration from the present.” The designer draws on the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi: acceptance of transience and impermanence.
Andrew on his current work:
I have become specifically interested in the ideas of broken physical and socio-political utopias. My latest works include responses to the hinterland around the M25 close to where I live. My intention is to produce works that represent an emotional response to the place rather than a pastiche of it. In this way, I aim to share the experience of visiting the site with the viewer.
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