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Lamentation, Flux and an Empty Bladder at SPARC*
The title of the exhibition certainly anticipates to the visitor a certain emotional context and a specific way through which Corner makes the experience of life and being a pai... more >> After 3 years since his first exhibition in Venice, Italy, the English painter Anthony Corner returns to the city with a new substantial body of work for the exhibition Lamentation, Flux and an Empty Bladder, at the gallery space SPARC*- Spazio Arte Contemporanea.
The title of the exhibition certainly anticipates to the visitor a certain emotional context and a specific way through which Corner makes the experience of life and being a painter.
"There is a sense of unbridgeable separateness that at times grips those who have gone through extreme, dramatic personal experiences.
All this translates into paintings from which an insistent lament arises, the expression of his pain. Then, suddenly, in the dense layering of paint that obscures everything under its thick cloak, from which details and words, small drawings and incomprehensible hieroglyphs struggle to emerge, over the last year or year and a half of work large openings of light appear: entire portions of the canvas, left empty and white.
From the linguistic din of the previous paintings, where colour, graphic effects and materials are condensed, corrupting each other, we encounter a silent pause in the latest works.
As happens when a bladder empties itself of its purulent liquid, finally one can breathe a sigh of relief, and all the tension that once generated and retained the pain inside a fine membrane suddenly flows off and vanishes."
