Event overview
Department of Art Public Talks Programme Spring 2016 welcomes painter Rose Wylie to Goldsmiths.
Contemporary Art Talks: Rose Wylie
Rose Wylie was born in 1934 and lives and works in her Kent cottage, producing extremely large paintings on unstretched, unprimed canvas, stapled floor to ceiling. The paintings are inspired by films, art history, politics, cartoons – everything around her: though there are echoes of South Park, Guston, Werner Herzog, Polke and Pompeii, comparisons are hard to sustain.
"When she paints a figure and labels it "in the manner of Signorelli", it may look to the untrained eye nothing like Signorelli, but someone who knows what makes Signorelli different from other members of the Tuscan school will get what she means. There is anger in her work, anger about the kind of art teaching that makes most kids give up making art, or turns their individual ways of seeing into A-levels." (The Guardian)
“There’s a scene from a very bleak film by Werner Herzog, called My Son, my Son, What Have Ye Done?’, slotted into classical Greek tragedy, and made contemporary, it’s inspired by an actual event, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to kill his mother with a sword. The central character, Brad, paints a picture on his garage door, and my painting is from my memory of what he’d painted. In Wylie's case, the departure from realism is great enough that the things depicted are present to us largely in our own remembering of them (almost as if they were written out instead of drawn in). Meanwhile, the paint is laid on with tremendous physicality. We can see where the brush ran out of paint, where the entire contents of a large tube, blended to a juicy consistency, have been globbed on to cover several square feet of canvas. This discrepancy, between the distantly remembered subject and the intensely present material, gives her paintings a thorny toughness." (Art in America)
Rose Wylie graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1981, was one of the winners of the 2011 Paul Hamlyn Prize for Visual Arts. She was the only non-American artist represented in the Women to Watch exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC in 2010, and won the 2014 John Moores Painting Prize.
This event is free. No booking is required. All welcome.
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10 Feb 2016 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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