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United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 11.8 W x 9.8 H x 1.5 D in
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This painting is one of a series of works inspired by objects and detritus found in my studio. My intention is to transform the subject, to declare the strange, the beautiful, and even the terrifying, in the familiar and banal around us. The white sheet is a recurring motif in my work: although an unremarkable piece of fabric, it can acquire a metaphorical force, evoking simultaneously loss, absence, death, spirituality and religious ritual. There are no fixings on the back, although it is a 'deep-edge' canvas, and therefore can easily hang off two nails.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11.8 W x 9.8 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Ships From:United Kingdom.
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'I intend my art to not so much reveal and illuminate, but to deepen mysteries, to declare the strange, even terrifying, in the familiar and banal around us.' Currently based in the United Kingdom, Jonathan Alibone is a resident of The Artist's Sanctuary in Northampton, England. He has exhibited widely and his work features in private collections in the UK, Europe, Russia, and North America. The paintings of Jonathan Alibone offer an exploration of the uncertainty and irreconcilable antagonisms inherent in our existence. They are populated with ghosts, and haunted by loss, unconsummated desire, and a nameless longing. His approach is to suggest incompleteness and absence, a removal or abandonment of the subjects, setting them adrift from their original contextual moorings so that they appear alienated, isolated in undefined and ambiguous spaces. In this light, Alibone’s work can be read as artefacts and remnants of culture: by deliberately using ephemera and found photographs that allow for a visceral charge and immediacy, he presents images that are at once both familiar and strange, allowing innuendo and a heightened sense of drama to extend meaning beyond what is depicted. The work’s realism becomes a means to not only engage the potential of imagination, but to explore the potential for significance. Executed in oils on an acrylic ground, a process of loss and retrieval is enacted upon the canvas; images are repeatedly created and then destroyed in order to heighten the tension between the figurative and the abstract. This strategy works to reinforce the perception of people and places as existing simultaneously in two worlds or states, dissolving or emerging from the paint. Like residual and indistinct memories, they are ambiguous and unreliable, half forgotten, half remembered.
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