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A Wicked Chapter

Simon Darling
   
June
   
16
 -  
June
   
27
“Through my paintings, I unite and express the unexplainable, indefinite and confusing emotions, from the obscure realm of imagination”

INFORMATION

The concept of these works examines the individual and universal interactions found in contemporary portraiture, startling the audience with simplified and distorted forms. The perception of the detailed impulse, with its raw, immediate, and unflinching emotional depth delivering a confusing characteristic visualization. Layered, abstracted marks are added to each layerrevealing visceral, emotional intensities and depth.

These works is best described as portraits of complexities of various emotional psychological states highlighted in altered ways, imitating the madness and unknown of everyday life. It is referred to as 'ImitatedPragmatism', defined as 'a realistic representation of that which is not known on surface. These works is portraying and visualizing the unknown and inner psychological and philosophical states of ourselves, in physical form the yimitate the pragmatism and or ideology of our thoughts and emotions which comesalive through the visualization.

 

With a subtle pseudo-minimalistic approach, I create several practically identical works, upon which thoughts that have apparently just been developed are manifested: notes are made and then crossed out again, ‘mistakes’ are repeated. This practice provides a set of metaphoric tools for maneuvering with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the sphere of painting: these methodically planned works resound and resonate with visions culled from the deep and dark realm of imagination.

The concept of these works examines the individual and universal interactions found in contemporary portraiture, startling the audience with simplified and distorted forms. The perception of the detailed impulse, with its raw, immediate, and unflinching emotional depth delivering a confusing characteristic visualization. Layered, abstracted marks are added to each layerrevealing visceral, emotional intensities and depth.

These works is best described as portraits of complexities of various emotional psychological states highlighted in altered ways, imitating the madness and unknown of everyday life. It is referred to as 'ImitatedPragmatism', defined as 'a realistic representation of that which is not known on surface. These works is portraying and visualizing the unknown and inner psychological and philosophical states of ourselves, in physical form the yimitate the pragmatism and or ideology of our thoughts and emotions which comesalive through the visualization.

 

With a subtle pseudo-minimalistic approach, I create several practically identical works, upon which thoughts that have apparently just been developed are manifested: notes are made and then crossed out again, ‘mistakes’ are repeated. This practice provides a set of metaphoric tools for maneuvering with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the sphere of painting: these methodically planned works resound and resonate with visions culled from the deep and dark realm of imagination.

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