Nicolas Chardon
03 Sep - 18 Oct 2011
NICOLAS CHARDON
Structures
3 September - 18 October, 2011
In the exhibition 'Structures' of Nicolas Chardon it is made clear, that his work is not limited to abstract art for the sake of abstract art. In the past years he has largely set himself to painting of woven checked fabrics. By stretching his canvasses tight waves in the patterns are created, which consequently results in a wavy effect when he paints in the lines and squares. In this way such a point of departure blends each painting with the printed fabrics in an accommodating way. The same attitude of working has been applied by him to the curled up mdf strips on the floor. Here the use of found material such as printed and woven fabrics is replaced by the use of a specific quality of wood. If only one side of a wooden mdf strip is painted it curls up by nature. In an assemblage of two pocket books from the seventies about erotic crimes the artist makes a vertical line by pushing tilted book covers against each other. This is in a pictorial sense once more a modest addition to found material.
By his way of thinking Nicolas Chardon takes at all times the characteristics of the chosen material into account. That makes his predominantly abstract work sympathetic and even empathic towards existing structures of fabric patterns , book covers or natural reactions of compressed wood.
Structures
3 September - 18 October, 2011
In the exhibition 'Structures' of Nicolas Chardon it is made clear, that his work is not limited to abstract art for the sake of abstract art. In the past years he has largely set himself to painting of woven checked fabrics. By stretching his canvasses tight waves in the patterns are created, which consequently results in a wavy effect when he paints in the lines and squares. In this way such a point of departure blends each painting with the printed fabrics in an accommodating way. The same attitude of working has been applied by him to the curled up mdf strips on the floor. Here the use of found material such as printed and woven fabrics is replaced by the use of a specific quality of wood. If only one side of a wooden mdf strip is painted it curls up by nature. In an assemblage of two pocket books from the seventies about erotic crimes the artist makes a vertical line by pushing tilted book covers against each other. This is in a pictorial sense once more a modest addition to found material.
By his way of thinking Nicolas Chardon takes at all times the characteristics of the chosen material into account. That makes his predominantly abstract work sympathetic and even empathic towards existing structures of fabric patterns , book covers or natural reactions of compressed wood.