Desire Painting

Du Pre, continues to write stories around the nature of existence, told through the depiction of people and in their multiple, granular identities. The artist explores this journey with her last series, Space / Time (2018), while also touching on the wider subjects that continually interest her and stimulate her curiosity about the dilemmas in the nature of our world. She is continually interested in the strange, illusory nature of matter itself and it would not be an exaggeration to say that her artistic inspirations are more directly related to physics than to the schools of art influencing her technique. She finds inspiration in the scientific confrontation between the clarity of general relativity and the ambiguity of quantum mechanics, with the latter leading us to question the nature of everything we observe. While everything is crystal clear in one, uncertainty dominates the other. In one, time is fluid, while it yields to be defined in singular moments in the other. In one, there is a travel from one part to the whole, while the other is composed of particles with no apparent continuity. In her latest series displayed here, named Space / Time, we encounter visions of the ruptures in the impermanent moment. Although they might appear to be a sequel, they are independent images. Feminine images introduced through shattered reflections, reveal one by one the fragmented identities of the woman. It expresses all the roles – mother, lover, business woman, wife, sister – that she may assume during the day, and how these roles can intertwine to create the rich complexities and pressure on a woman’s life. Alea Pınar Du Pre portraits are, on the one hand, about capturing an identity in a moment in time - a singularity in the form of a character. On the other hand they also remind us that they are part of the unstoppable struggle of existence itself. The artist is experimental in her production techniques and makes full use of modern technology in her layering of imagery, but the process itself remains highly hand-crafted and increasingly labour intensive. Her portraiture began with a preference for complex, digitally manipulated productions, but over the last few years the artist has increasingly preferred to texture and layer her work working on traditional canvases and using acrylic and glass paints. In her new Space / Time series, her canvases feature a new technique which she feels allows us to sense the fleeting and sometimes illusory nature of what we see in nature and in the true identities of characters we can never quite ‘capture’ when we observe them directly. The physicists amongst us will appreciate that. In short, Du Pre’s portraits touch on the nature of individual identity and how we’re coded to try to de-code female beauty and success. What further absorbs the audience is the depth of artistic craft designed to visually and physically uncover hints of the inexplicable in existence itself...

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:33.5 W x 59.1 H x 2.8 D in

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