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Adam Art Gallery
29 May - 25 July 2004 |
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Curatorial
Statement | Artist's
Résumé
Descriptions of Séraphine Pick's painting are frequently
peppered with the word 'dreamscape' and indeed much of her
work is saturated with the imagery of memories, personal iconography
floating in a surreal landscape. In contrast to these elaborately
detailed works, her new paintings are more straight-forward,
pared back to a single figure which dominates the canvas.
As Pick has said: 'It is like I am breaking down one of my
larger paintings and focusing on the separate characters.'
Although simplified in structure, Pick's new paintings remain
charged with a highly personal approach. Her new works are
paintings of babies, but not the stylised babies with smiles
and dimples we might see in an Anne Geddes' photograph. These
babies are like tiny defenceless animals, raw and very real,
based on her own child and the children of friends. Pick has
commented that the 'baby paintings are full figure and larger
than life. They are almost alien-like.
Emma Bugden
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