CLOSE CORNERS curated by
@scott_mccracken_ opens tomorrow at the new
@turpsgallery come say hi đ
I am showing a small work that makes use of the offcuts and leftovers from the studio. These pieces have been kept from all the larger site specific installations I have done over the years. In this work there are offcuts I saved whilst
@turpsstudioprogramme 8years ago. I knew they would come in handy one day!
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âClose Cornersâ is an exhibition of and about small painting selected by Scott McCracken. The works are diminutive and modest in size, yet they each possess their own shifting internal scale; their own pictorial space which cannot be measured. We relate to paintings differently depending on their size. Unlike larger, human-scaled painting which invites entry into itself, where there is a threshold that can be crossed, these works cannot be entered in such a way. They are mental pictures. Tactile pictures. They are the size of heads, of hands and of pages rather than of bodies and windows and walls. Viewing them at a distance only obscures their material nature and their surface matter. These paintings require close working. Close looking. Their edges contain and their corners are close.
