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Eleven Fine Art, London, 26 February to 28 March 2009
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from Eleven Fine Art:
Roland Hicks’ meticulous hyperrealist paintings magnify the
insignificant: bubbles, chewing gum, all the overlooked detritus
of our daily life. For his first solo show at Eleven, he concentrates
on tumbleweeds of fluff. Found by the artist, these mini-sculptures
of the ephemeral become on the canvases, alluring semi-abstract
figures. The tense relationship between figuration and abstraction
is a recurrent feature of Hicks’ work. Neither completely
one nor the other, his paintings exist at the threshold between
both. In this series, only the horizon line in the background allows
us to situate the object in an illusionary three-dimensional space,
and even this space is indeterminate. It’s a limbo of dark,
neutral colours, whose unique function is to highlight the sculptural
quality of the object represented.
Artworks
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GIVE TO
ME SOME PURPOSE
I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery
2009, oil on canvas, 40cm x 40cm |
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IT FOLLOWS
I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery
2009, Oil on canvas, 50 x 50cm |
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HOW THEY
GET AROUND YOU
I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery
2009, oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm |
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RETURN OF
THE BLACK ROLLER
I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery
2009, Oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm |
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I COME FROM
OPEN PRAIRIE
I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery
2009, Oil on canvas, 102 x 102cm |
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THE PROSPECTOR
I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery
2009, Oil on canvas, 76x76cm |
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