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PART 2
Nathan Bomford, Marcia
Huyer and Inga
Roemer
April 29 - May 1, 2005
The Science of Counterpoint
The lens is the colorists eye.1 Recriprocal
concessions occur between
light and landscape: a cold blue sea is leveled often, by a red
horizon. Orange
hues in the late afternoon grow iridescent on certain buildings.
Glass tinges
green at the edges. Aluminum dissolves into white.
Color is like the weather. It cannot be defined absolutely. As
London is awash
in fog, so Vancouvexcuse me The Crystal Shire, glistening between
mountain and
ocean, reflects its' tempermental and impressive surroundings.
"All things, variously coloured in accordance with their molecular
structure", well noted by Baudelaire, "suffer continual alteration
through the transposition of light and shadow"2. Similarly all
works, variously made and rhizomatically hung, suffer the weight
of their
respective legacies. The reciprocity is off: familiar scenes
are photographically substituted for images of an anti-colourist
landscape.
Painted German abstract structures, laid down one over the next
will be examined in detail: at a distance. A great tyvex volume
makes a monument of transitory material. Larger than life: smaller
than death.
Criticism is a metaphysical problem: a study of absolutes, if
you will. An
account of the habits cultivated, and methods used to find happiness.
In this
pursuit, nothing is more beautiful or immanent than ugliness.
The good tycoon
understands our combined taste for pleasure and duress. His minions
sweat it
out for ninety minutes at a stretch. While on the other side
of town, what is that I see on the ground, a rock? No! Nothing
more
than an overdeveloped taste for the sublime.
Lucy Pullen
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1 Salon
de 1846, Baudelaire Dufays (Charles Baudelaire),
published by Michel Levy Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, Paris: 1846
2 Ibid
Lucy
Pullen is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University
of Victoria in British Columbia, where she researches the practical
and philosophical implications of conceptual art and sculpture.
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