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David
Powell, Spectres
14/02 - 14/03/09
David Powell's paintings experiment with a dialectical framework, one that raises questions about the tradition of figurative painting in the light of developments in Modernism and Post Modernism. The issue of a developmental practice that favours the new over the old is dispensed with, the paintings represent a continuity that spans centuries of art history. The figures that appear in Powell's paintings are not generic types, they are all real identities whose actions and expressions are dramatized and played off one another. Individuals have a sense of being in a group but seem at odds with committing to the over-riding ideals of the group as one complete body. The spaces they inhabit are composites of different countries, for example: Holland, Iceland and London. Powell often refers openly to artists such as Fragonard, Ingres, Poussin and Tintoretto, he sees painting as an essay like form that inaugurates critique as an open ended process.
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