Video: The Art of Destroying Paintings by Valerie Hegarty
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For many artists, creativity is a difficult, long process. For Valerie Hegarty this is destruction process: she destroys old paintings, sets them on fire, her exhibition halls look like abandoned houses of the colonial era. Niagara Falls literally flows from the ragged edges of one of her masterpieces.
Valerie Hegarty was born in Burlington, Vermont, USA. She is one of the many artists who love to create, breaking both stereotypes and frames, and something material. The exploding vases of Martin Klimas and the frozen explosions in the installations of Cornelie Parker immediately come to mind.
She takes colonial paintings, antique furniture from that era, heroic and picturesque landscapes, classical portraits, and does whatever she pleases with them. Destroying paintingsValerie Hegarty is always creating something new, and the end result is a bit like collages. But, speaking of collages, we are not used to seeing how something completely different is obtained from pieces of different paintings or simply from one picture burned in a certain way.
Valerie Hegarty's exhibition halls seem to be a continuation of her work: Niagara Falls in one painting hangs from its twisted edges, and the cracked canyon is really bursting at the seams along with the wall. And next to it there is a closet like a termites-eaten wardrobe. Valerie Hegarty, destroying the picture thus, creates from the gallery one large installation of the colonial era.
Valerie Hegarty currently lives and works in New York. On her website you can see some of the things she destroyed.
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