From the desk of Fons Schiedon

“Pretty big sort of abstract paintings and a video installation.”

Exhibition of new work: March 17-April 5 at LODOWN “Gallery Westberlin”.

This is the second show of paintings by Berlin based artist Fons Schiedon. Earlier works depicted a visual aesthetic of instantly recognizable cartoon elements, employing a visual treatment inspired by the techniques of animated film. Parts of this approach remain, while the work moves further away from a strictly figurative appearance.

The paintings in this exhibition are complex compositions that seem to exist at more than one moment in time, in more than one place at a time. Materialising fragments of warped memories and detached associations, time is not only a subject, but the works themselves act as a time capsule recording the process of painting. In an intuitive mudfight, these are assembled by overpainting the canvas many times, embracing unforseen changes and incidents as the image gradually takes on its final form.

LODOWN “Gallery Westberlin”
at Brunnenstr. 56, 13355 Berlin-Wedding, Germany
vernissage: TUESDAY 17.03.09, 19.00-24.00h until 5.04.09

in association with:
3rd Pictoplasma Conference and Festival
19.03. – 21.03.2009, Berlin
http://www.pictoplasma.com/pictopia

Preview images coming soon.

March 3rd, 2009 | | Permalink | Filed under Notifications.