Video: Create and Destroy: The Destructive Creativity of a Canadian Artist
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Canadian artist Brian Donnelly deliberately destroys the structure of the image in various ways. He treats the canvas with turpentine or applies a special hygienic cleaning agent to the painting. Thus, Brian seeks to raise difficult questions about the fragility and frailty of life in his work.
After such a kind of post-processing (sometimes, hand sanitizers or strong alcohol are used), the artist can admire the metamorphoses that occur with the delicate top layer of the painting for a long time. Donnelly compares this process to a change of seasons: the pigment gradually dissolves, revealing the base layer of the painting. “I watch the shape change - sometimes it resembles the fall of leaves or the change of seasons. Such a fragile and changeable environment hints at the fragility and inconsistency of our own life,”explains the artist.
Brian sees his work as a way to satisfy his own selfish whims through the knowledge of art. The obvious destructive aspect of Donnelly's work is another way to speak a new language with the viewer. This language, however, led the master to physical damage to the image.
However, Brian Donnelly is not the first artist to turn to the destruction of the created in favor of the search for new meanings. For example, Spanish artist Gim Sarraluchi also uses special chemical solvents and oil pastels, transforming “perfect” pictures from glossy magazines into abstract paintings that create an unsettling feeling for the viewer.
Another master, Brazilian Lucas Simões, recently started burning from photography. The photographer puts a special sacred meaning into this action, doing with the character captured in the picture what human memory will inevitably do with him. Contemplation of his photographs treated with acid leaves thoughts of emptiness, frailty and inconsistency of human memory.
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