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Collage, Acrylic on Paper
Size: 30 W x 30 H x 2 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Painting is about perception and the distortion of the senses, which reveals how the human brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. The illusion of control is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to control events; My art is rich on connotation, conciously charged with social meanings insisting upon individual creative freedoms that stand as a rebuke to the determinism of identity politics. The illusion of inclusion has been defined by the subtle ways that the standards can appear to adequately address race while at the same time marginalizing it. We can do more. We can open our mouths, when we know something’s not right. In my art I layer allusions and meanings in the same way that I layer materials, with the same underlying dynamic, things are revealed only to be concealed. Tear, build-up, layer by layer, only to be excavated, ravished, undone. They hold out the possibility of interpretation only to frustrate — or better, to complicate. Advertising signs that began their exisitence as models of plain lucidity end up erased, obscured, ripped or papered over. New posters are plastered over old ones. My paintings are made up of tearing, it represents a process that is more of a reality than layering down a perfect line of paint. It’s raw and violent, but it still manages to come together.
Original Created:
2020
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DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Collage:
Acrylic on Paper
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
30 W x 30 H x 2 D in
Frame:
White
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
SHIPPING AND RETURNS
Delivery Time:
Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:
Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:
Canada.
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Eric Capel
Canada
ERIC CAPEL (b. Toronto Canada December 14, 1948). I categorize my work as Social Abstraction: abstract art with social or political influences immersed in the paint. I’m working on a collection of acrylic, collage, and graphite paintings on birchwood panels with the occasional diptych or work on paper, whose laborious surfaces are ghost images of emotional and political terrain. Each work begins with lengths of twine stretched across the canvas at one-inch intervals, creating a linear grid. This grid is the foundation on top of which is built of images, graphic patterns, words, and phrases. The layers of which, are selectively hidden or left exposed. What remains is a pictorial record, a fossil, of their evolution. What I have so laboriously constructed, I attack, tearing away the layers with power sanders, knives, and spray bottles. Revealing a strata of colors and embedded images, raw and exposed. The surface bears visual allusions to the works of abstract expressionism and street art, recontextualizing the polished traditions of high art with a grittier urban flair that is explosively contemporary. All reference to the twine guides, all that remains, are the horizontal scars of their absence. “Hidden Depths” is a personal exploration of my hidden potential after fifty years in another creative field. Eric, calls home Montreal, where he has his studio “Atelier lyfe on mars”.
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