150507 The Man from Varanasi

Description

A large pale pink head-like form fills the upper half of the painting, bordered by yellow and dark brown. Below it, a dense blue-green and orange field contains a small blue hooded figure and a dark boat-like form.

07.05.15
oil on canvas
80X60

Authorial Comment

The wrapped figure comes from the artists' journey from Nepal into India: travelling by bus and later spending a night at Varanasi station, they repeatedly saw people walking along the road wrapped in scarves. The painting turns that observed roadside figure into one of the early forms of the recurring hooded / wrapped person in the Dresden painting corpus. This establishes the source of the image; it does not establish a canonical Series relation.

Installation view

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Early Paintings

150512 Tiny Red ShoesThe vertical painting is divided into two uneven zones: a turquoise hooded figure occupies the upper right, while the lower half gathers pale, green and orange fragments around a dark arched shape. Small black figures and isolated red marks punctuate the lighter field.
150729On a pale vertical field, translucent blue, green, pink and ochre passages accumulate around the centre. A small blue hooded figure sits near the lower edge beneath a diffuse cluster of partially dissolved forms.