![]() But if you the viewer have been placed below a transom, gazing up as if for transcendence, the suggestion is the door is or cannot or will not open. ![]() At angles a colour may flash holographically toward its complement, red to green, orange to blue, seemingly alive, very much like the light the paintings deftly depict. These paintings are – insofar as we recognise ‘subjects’ within them (insects, arachnids, black holes, cat eyes, war machines) – windows, both in the literal sense of the transom installation as well as the metaphorical question posed in the layered complexity of their form: who made these? And how? And with what? And why? These are questions one poses at any exhibit, probably – notice how artists inspect others’ paintings like detectives – however in Fresh Hell the answers are not so easily located. Likewise to find the mirror/window dichotomy inverted. And it should be no surprise the Americans – king individualists – elevated abstraction to a pedestal of Real Importance, where painting was, in a cynical sense, secondary to the mythic souls pulling such works from the aether.Ĭoincidental then to find aether as the primary subject that Pontzer here is working from, and of. In this regard we see through the painting to the artist. They are paintings of evidence, mark, trace. You see through the painting to its creation. Abstraction, which is inaccessible, generally speaking, to the sensuality of the body, insinuates the canvas as a window into the studio. Perhaps unexpectedly the rise of the painting as a window – contrary (or totally opposite, metaphor-wise) to how Alberti conceived of it – concurred with the Industrial Revolution. He/she/they become I without apparent effort on the part of the viewer. We see Saint Sebastian filled with arrows and feel the wounds in our own body. ![]() Representational paintings, which lend themselves to all manner of parasympathetic relationships, are usually and traditionally mirrors. In my estimation paintings tend to fall into two camps, that is the window and the mirror. ![]()
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