Accent Support

细节

Nicholas Byrne (B. 1979)
Accent Support
oil on Plexiglas in metal frame
43 ¾ x 23 7/8in. (111 x 60.5cm.)
Executed in 2010

来源

Vilma Gold, London.
Acquired from the above in 2010.

展览

London, Vilma Gold, A Catholic Episode, 2010.
London, Saatchi Gallery, Newspeak, British Art Now Part Two, 2010-2011. This exhibition later travelled to St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.

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拍品专文

Accent Support displays Nicholas Byrne’s deft handling of colour and formal harmony: verging on figuration, the work recalls Cubist portraiture and the symbolist work of Hilma Af Klint, but is lent a compelling otherness by its execution on Plexiglas. Byrne’s considered brushwork is brought to new light, the surface of the paint giving way to transparency before our eyes. ‘Thinking about the metals in the oil paint I was using led me to make a number of paintings on copper,’ recalls Byrne. ‘Accent Support, a work on Plexiglas, is something different but follows on from this. To look at an image drawn on a transparent support you might become aware that the painting has two sides. Sometimes through the glass, you can see the backside of smeared paint, with the rear-end of the painting coming into play, acting together with what is drawn on the front, both sides adding up in drawing a figure. The material ground of a painting matters to me. I use supports to enjoy aspects of their character. The character of Plexiglas is softer than the brittle tension in normal glass and this helps to determine how the marks of the figure are drawn on.’