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Shroud: catalogue introduction by Robert Clark

The painting is a spectacle of something only by being a ‘spectacle of nothing’, by breaking the skin of things to show how things become things, how the world becomes world.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

The art of Paul Evans draws us into its illusionistic depths at the same time as stressing the painterly manner of its own making. This is its magic, its artful artifice. A painting by Evans is a picture, a pretend-space, a deepening catalyst for dreaming. Simultaneously it is an object, a tactile presence, a special kind of thing in a world of ordinary things...


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After Nature
Exhibition Catalogue featuring poems by Chris Jones
Available from Cupola Contemporary Art
www.cupolagallery.com

 

 

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