Painter and printmaker Barnaby Furnas will exhibit new paintings at Galleria Monica De Cardenas in Zuoz, Switzerland.
From the gallery:
"The active moment versus painting’s innate stillness has been a central concern of Barnaby Furnas’ work over the past decade. Pitched between depicted action and the act of painting – paint’s illusory potential and its materiality – Furnas entwines history with art history in provocative combinations of narrative and form. Furnas is interested in vast array of cultural sources from videogames and other forms of mass culture to the history of painting and the philosophy of perception. Furnas has often taken on the most monumental and tradition bound subject matter. By combining in the same show, war and martyrdom with the indulgent experience of a rock concert, Furnas is in a sense levelling these experiences to a single point of tension. While one is truly profound and dangerous, the other is contained, safe and temporary, but an intense and possibly moving experience.
In the new exhibition in Zuoz for the first time he will present landscape paintings, mountains, portraits and still lives. But even these are animated by the flow of paint: they are landscapes in motion."
The exhibition is on view from December 7, 2013 through February 9, 2014 at Galleria Monica De Cardenas
