Kunstverein Freiburg

Merlin James

17 Jan - 03 Mar 2014

© Merlin James
Freestyle, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, 2014
Photo: Marc Doradzillo
MERLIN JAMES
Freestyle
17 January – 3 March 2014

n the last thirty years Merlin James (* 1960, Cardiff, GB) gradually developed a complex pictural language. The exhibition Freestyle presents sceneries, figural and abstract compositions of his complete productive period. The exhibition makes it visible, that the painter −like an archaeologist of his own artistic formation− balances sporadic stylistic fluctuations of different formal languages negligible for the date of origin of the painting. Many a time the working process displaces the source of an initial subject of the painting according the method to take nonlinear decisions. Despite of all diversity- in his multifaceted oeuvre sounds the vision of a lost world.
 

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