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Walid El-Masri: The Seat of Perception II

Past exhibition
21 February - 4 April 2013
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Chairs, 2007 Mixed Media on Canvas 120 x 120 cm
Chairs, 2007
Mixed Media on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
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“The Seat of Perception II”, a solo exhibition of new works by Lebanese artist Walid El-Masri, continues the artist’s unfailing exploration and reinterpretation of the form of the chair. 

 

The chair lends itself as a point of departure for an investigation into the act of painting itself, which El-Masri describes as a condensing of a greater reality. The repetition of the subject gives both El-Masri and the viewer the freedom to focus on more formal concerns such as colour and pictorial depth, and even the more elusive meaning of existence. El-Masri’s distortion of pictorial space in order to construct his own reality recalls the practice of artists working in the late 19th to early 20th Century, most noticeably Cezanne. Much like Cezanne, who innovated the depiction of space in painting through his masterful use of colour, El-Masri ignores the laws of classical perspective and builds dimension within his compositions through the application of layers of colour.

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