Gate Pose

细节

Kate Groobey (B. 1979)
Gate Pose
signed and dated 'KATE GROOBEY 2010' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
59 ¼ x 51 3/8in. (150.5 x 130.4cm.)
Painted in 2010

来源

Royal College of Art, London.
Acquired from the above in 2010.

展览

London, Saatchi Gallery, Newspeak: British Art Now, 2010 -2011. This exhibition later travelled to St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.

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拍品专文

Gate Pose is a yoga position. The upraised arm and leftward lean of the figure in Kate Groobey’s vibrant painting captures something of this stance, but the body is strangely distorted, arm morphing into leg, and the torso a confusing mass of shapes. Groobey contorts her figures to impossible form through a physical process of revision, somewhat akin to Georg Baselitz’s ‘remix’ paintings of the 1980s. ‘I’ll start line drawings in a sketchbook, then I’ll add watercolour, and then I’ll chop them up and collage them,’ she explains. ‘I also photocopy some of them and chop the photocopies up, muddle them around. Then I’ll draw back from the collages, so they all get churned up.’ The gridded green background of the finished work refers back to the artist’s cutting board. Often pictured dancing or exercising, these figures embody a fascination with the movement of the human form, a sense of physical fluidity echoing the contortions Groobey herself must go through: with the canvas laid on the floor, ‘it’s quite a physical job to lean over and actually make the things.’ Even as the figure is stretched to near-abstraction, Groobey’s painting celebrates the body and the brush in all their freedom.