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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20170101
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20180101
DTSTAMP:20170129T125637Z
URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/gostins-building-paul-mellor-not
 -dark-yet/
SUMMARY:Gostins Building: Gostins Building: Paul Mellor\, not dark yet...
DESCRIPTION:Paul Mellor\n'not dark yet...’\n\npaintings - 2010-2017\n\nPa
 ul Mellor studied fine art (painting) at Wimbledon School of Art and has c
 ontinued to make and exhibit work nationally and internationally in the me
 dia of film\, video\, printmaking and photography.\n\nHe returned to paint
 ing in 2010. This recent work\, informed by his lifelong passion for histo
 rical and contemporary painting\, considers themes of isolation\, melancho
 ly\, history\, memory\, loss\, allegory and mortality.\n\nThe work display
 s an almost naive faith in the continuing relevance of painting in a digit
 al age and deliberately references\, both obliquely and directly\, particu
 lar artists (sometimes individual paintings) that have been an influence s
 ince he was a student and others picked up along the way. These include Pi
 ero della Francesca\, Titian\, Velazquez\, Friedrich\, Gauguin\, Manet\, M
 unch\, Hopper\, Bacon\, and Richter\, as well as auteur filmmakers such as
  Herzog\, Pasolini\, Wenders\, Visconti\, Antonioni and Tarkovsky.\n\nA re
 curring concern of the work is to open a dialogue that seeks to interpret 
 a psychological space that is more representative of a state of mind than 
 any specific place\, frequently employing the same themes\, tropes and mot
 ifs – the melancholic rhetoric of distant horizons\, windows and mirrors
 \, isolated figures viewed from behind\, and empty spaces and desolate lan
 dscapes that suggest an estranged reality and vulnerability.\n\nIn employi
 ng these recurring themes\, he hopes to effect a distancing from the subje
 ct being represented so that the image is viewed atmospherically rather th
 an descriptively.\n\nFrequently using source material from a range of digi
 tal reproductions (art books\, film stills\, postcards etc)\, the finished
  works offer representations governed by contingency and removed from thei
 r points of origin that seek to question the idea of memory\, (both privat
 e and collective\, its failure\, illusion and ambiguity)\, history\, and t
 he human condition.
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LOCATION:Gostins Building\, 32-36 Hanover Street\, Liverpool\, L1 4LN\, Liv
 erpool\, United Kingdom
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