Daniel Sinsel
11 May - 02 Jul 2005
Daniel Sinsel
11 May to 02 July 2005
Central to Daniel Sinsel's work is an experimentation with materials. Foreign elements such as precious stones, horns and horse hair become appendages to the painted canvas or alternatively the canvas makes way for an eclectic range of objects. His original approach to materials is met by an equally unusual subject matter, with knives, nuts, eggs and wood crossing back and forth as instruments, supports and motifs. The overtly sexual has given way in more recent work to the more obliquely sensuous. References to art history together with nods to broader creative traditions combine in Sinsel's painting with a very personal, contemporary iconography. From works which manifest a technical virtuosity, there emanates a sense of calm serenity, tinged on occasion with melancholy and often with playfulness and wit.
The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication of the first monograph on the artist.
© Daniel Sinsel
Untitled (boy with pearls)
2005
oil on linen
29cm x 23.5cm x 6cm
courtesy Sadie Coles HQ
11 May to 02 July 2005
Central to Daniel Sinsel's work is an experimentation with materials. Foreign elements such as precious stones, horns and horse hair become appendages to the painted canvas or alternatively the canvas makes way for an eclectic range of objects. His original approach to materials is met by an equally unusual subject matter, with knives, nuts, eggs and wood crossing back and forth as instruments, supports and motifs. The overtly sexual has given way in more recent work to the more obliquely sensuous. References to art history together with nods to broader creative traditions combine in Sinsel's painting with a very personal, contemporary iconography. From works which manifest a technical virtuosity, there emanates a sense of calm serenity, tinged on occasion with melancholy and often with playfulness and wit.
The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication of the first monograph on the artist.
© Daniel Sinsel
Untitled (boy with pearls)
2005
oil on linen
29cm x 23.5cm x 6cm
courtesy Sadie Coles HQ