2014
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Hardcover
96 pages
306 × 243 mm
British artist Ged Quinn is renowned for his densely layered paintings that combine symbolic and surreal elements and transform art historical references into contemporary experience. Rich with meaning and symbolism, Quinn’s works combine complex histories and mythological references with the traditions of landscape, still-life and genre painting. Themes of religion, politics, literature and film permeate his practice. There has been a decisive shift in the artist’s practice towards a more poetic and abstract style in recent years. Inspired by André Derain’s Fauvist techniques and the emotional currents of abstract expressionism, Quinn's work becomes a playground for the unfettered freedom of mark-making, his paintings resisting straightforward interpretation.
[Stephen Friedman Gallery]
Includes essays by Michael Bracewell and Brian Dillon.
