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Приєднався 22 сер 2019
Louis-Pierre Lachapelle: Gravité
"The duende wounds. In the healing of that wound, which never closes, lie the strange, invented qualities of a man’s work…" - Federico Garcia Lorca
Cove Street Arts is proud to debut emerging Maine artist Louis Pierre Lachapelle's powerful and enigmatic new body of work, Gravité. This series of mixed media paintings is notable for its rawness and immediacy, for its unflinching authenticity, and for its visceral impact. It fairly throbs with the intensity of exploding boundaries, between beauty and ugliness, pleasure and pain, chaos and control, rationality and irrationality. Lachapelle's goal of making work that is original, very intimate to him, and yet universal - in its emotional terrain, and in our shared and very human need for grounding - is achieved.
The work is achingly gorgeous, and complicated. Its beauty ravished by a brush with something dissonant, painful, and profound. In other words, it has duende. In Lorca's aesthetics, the duende is conceived as an ancient and demonic earth spirit who must be awaken[ed] in the remotest mansions of the blood, and with whom an artist must wrestle at the rim of the wound....But there are neither maps nor exercises to help us....We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken glass, that he exhausts, that he rejects all the sweet geometry we have learned, that he smashes styles, that he leans on human pain with no consolation and makes Goya (master of the grays, silvers, and pinks of the best English painting) work with his fists and knees in horrible bitumens.
Lachapelle's paintings seem not only to embody the spirit of a scuffle with a Lorcan duende but, at times, to represent it. The metaphorical sense of a human body in situations where "death is possible" is present in the artist's frequent use of a "blood and guts" palette and in the "violent" poetics of his mark making, with its prevalence of splatters, drips, and dramatic, gestural brushwork. Lachapelle's personal body is also present, though often spectrally, in collaged photographic transfers of images taken by his collaborator, Erin Little. Duende itself is also allowed a certain corporality in the artist's use of materials. The earth and its elements are made manifest through brown and metallic hues and in the coarse textures or unrefined qualities of some incorporated materials. Especially, perhaps, in the primeval symbolism of thick smears of a crude, tarry material smeared atop the fragility of translucent washes of peach and blood red. Horrible bitumens indeed...
Cove Street Arts is proud to debut emerging Maine artist Louis Pierre Lachapelle's powerful and enigmatic new body of work, Gravité. This series of mixed media paintings is notable for its rawness and immediacy, for its unflinching authenticity, and for its visceral impact. It fairly throbs with the intensity of exploding boundaries, between beauty and ugliness, pleasure and pain, chaos and control, rationality and irrationality. Lachapelle's goal of making work that is original, very intimate to him, and yet universal - in its emotional terrain, and in our shared and very human need for grounding - is achieved.
The work is achingly gorgeous, and complicated. Its beauty ravished by a brush with something dissonant, painful, and profound. In other words, it has duende. In Lorca's aesthetics, the duende is conceived as an ancient and demonic earth spirit who must be awaken[ed] in the remotest mansions of the blood, and with whom an artist must wrestle at the rim of the wound....But there are neither maps nor exercises to help us....We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken glass, that he exhausts, that he rejects all the sweet geometry we have learned, that he smashes styles, that he leans on human pain with no consolation and makes Goya (master of the grays, silvers, and pinks of the best English painting) work with his fists and knees in horrible bitumens.
Lachapelle's paintings seem not only to embody the spirit of a scuffle with a Lorcan duende but, at times, to represent it. The metaphorical sense of a human body in situations where "death is possible" is present in the artist's frequent use of a "blood and guts" palette and in the "violent" poetics of his mark making, with its prevalence of splatters, drips, and dramatic, gestural brushwork. Lachapelle's personal body is also present, though often spectrally, in collaged photographic transfers of images taken by his collaborator, Erin Little. Duende itself is also allowed a certain corporality in the artist's use of materials. The earth and its elements are made manifest through brown and metallic hues and in the coarse textures or unrefined qualities of some incorporated materials. Especially, perhaps, in the primeval symbolism of thick smears of a crude, tarry material smeared atop the fragility of translucent washes of peach and blood red. Horrible bitumens indeed...
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Manifold
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Artist Talk: Sondra Bogdonoff, Roy Fox, and Jamie Johnston
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Artist Talk: Carson Jackson
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Tom Glover: Docks Deconstructed
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Carson Jackson: Dance of the Untamed
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Cross-Section: Two Decades at Running With Scissors Art Studios
I had him as a professor once, he's awesome.
Incredible work, amazing artist
I wish the video was slower and let us observe each piece. Like a walk thru.
Beautiful!
I am in heaven ❤beautiful ❤
Awesome quilts. Thank you
Thank you for providing a way for me to see this creative collection. Please consider replacing the corporate marketing style syntho music with something simple like birds or ocean waves. For me it is distracting from the work.
Very beautiful 😍
exciting show!
❤ so much rest and love.
Wonderful. Made me smile this morning. Just wonderful! Thank you
A great artist.......
wonderful video. wonderful concept. Who did the video? I must finally visit your gallery. Will write you. Your work is top notch.
Well done
Amazing!
'Promosm'
He's the Best.....I'm always humbled whenever I gaze into one of his works.
Fantastic!
Great art, wonderful space, lovely man. A painter.
David....this is a fabulous show. You have always been great artist and you keep growing. Keep it up. You are a treasure.
Looks like an amazing exhibit! !
Perfection!
Amazing! Thank you for sharing this beautiful video. We love Matt's work! Congratulations!
Outstanding work.
Just stumbled across Tom’s work, blown away by its emotional charge and minimal palette. Really resonates with me. The other two ladies we’re awesome and beautiful.
why the mask on stage? disconnect
Because there was a live audience, and the artist felt more comfortable wearing a mask.
beautiful work..... and let's mention the actual first person to purposely use the Cyanotype method of image making ......Anna Atkins.....her uncle the scientist sir John Herschel merely discovered the method....Botanist, and the first published photographer in the history of photography, with her two books of botanical studies, Atkins is the historical root of this method of image making.
Very, very nice! Hands quilting !!!!!
Amazing work!
Quels sont les noms des artistes s'il-vous-plaît ?
Here’s a link to the exhibition webpage with the artists: www.covestreetarts.com/exhibitions-1/current-exhibition-cyanotype
Vraiment chapeau pour leur création et la passion merci d'avance de participer avec nous ses œuvres Grande salutations de Maroc
Art and life's.....decorate and division......
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These are so bright and beautiful! Can’t wait to see more!
USELESS PHOTOGRAPY!!! have to keep halting and back tracking to actually SEE THE QUILTS !!! whats the point of rushing by the things???? :(
I've recently stumbled on this style of quilting and am having a go myself. I love how it can incorporate any fabric! Not as easy to be neat as it looks. Thanks 👌
Beautiful 😍
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Such a wonderful initiative and amazing quilts! I started learning Kawandi during the lockdown and I truly feel this art of quilting needs more exposure.
Beautiful quilts!
Bravo bravo bravo bravo 👏 👏
So beautiful!!
Beautiful!!!!
Excellent artists' talk. I've known Tom for 40 years, and it is great to see him with his contemporaries - thank you!
Beautiful work! Wish I could be there!