Video: Striped silhouettes: wooden paintings by Dolan Gaiman
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Chicago-based artist Dolan Gaiman does not paint with paints, but lays out the images with various objects, selected throughout America. It is difficult to accurately define his work. In fact, what is it: wooden paintings or strange sculptures? The sculptures of the talented American combine urban and rural, vintage and modern. The author of the silhouettes defines his style as the embodiment of uncomplicated content in a simple form.
Covers left over from books that were kindled a long time ago, wooden legs from tables, pieces of metal, road signs … Dolan Geiman began collecting all this stuff for future works of art as a child. And in his youth he began to study sculpture and engraving, but he says that it was much more useful from conversations with his mother, who taught him to peer into the clouds.
Why did Dolan Gaiman take on old wood and other similar materials? The fact is that he grew up outside the city. All that a child could play with without hindrance was rusty parts from a tractor, sticks for every taste and similar rubbish. Imagination told the boy how to mold a candy from dubious material, and the experiment led him to where he could get good for the first creative experiments. For example, when a young sculptor needed horseshoes for a future "masterpiece", he could go to rummage in the stable.
Dolan Gaiman renounces the title of craftsman: in his understanding, this is a person who lives away from society and quietly drinks alone in the moonlight. The master prefers to call himself an American Ruralist. According to Gaiman, this is a person who loves to descend into the countryside to gain impressions and check moral guidelines. Someone opens the Bible for this, and someone goes to the village. And speaking of landmarks: the author of wooden paintings is very fond of gospel music - Christian rhythmic chants, although he himself is not a believer.
The author of wooden paintings does not perceive the prospect of going to the village, to his aunt, into the wilderness as a curse: “The wilderness is not a luxury, but the need of the human spirit,” he repeats after the writer Edward Abby, rightly believing that nothing clears the mind like a couple of days away from civilization.
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