Taro Nasu

Cornelius Quabeck

23 Jan - 21 Feb 2009

© Cornelius Quabeck
Home at the Pole, 2008
Acrylic, airbrush on canvas
CORNELIUS QUABECK
"C Monster"

23 January - 21 February, 2009

Gallery Hours: 11:00-19:00 Tue. - Sat. Closed on Sun., Mon., and Public Holidays
Reception for the Artist: Friday 23 January 6-8pm

No Pun intended!

In recent years I’ve been working on a group of paintings that focus on fictional characters. As an artist I’ve always dealt with public imagery from newspapers to record covers to books and cartoons.

A while ago though I decided to try and imagine a figure in painting like fictional writers do in books instead of reproducing and interpreting given imagery.

For my forthcoming solo show at Taro Nasu Gallery I selected and regrouped new works from my studio of the last two years.

Together these works build a fantastic world where each depicted character might be a hero or villain depending on the viewer’s reading. Being a picture show it does not offer the structure of narration that we experience when reading a book turning page after page.

Hopefully though this show will manage to create a book momento equivalent to what lovers of literature would call a "great novel.“

Cornelius Quabeck 2008
 

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