15th January - 9th February 2008Poussin Review 2008: |
![]() Poussin Review 2008: form and space
Abstract painting and sculpture at this moment in time can not only be as simple or as complex as the imperative of the individual artist‘s sensibility demands, but is also able to pursue total formal and spatial freedom of expression. Paintings and sculptures which are impassioned by urgent and real formal and spatial values (but not a desiccated formalism!) have connections with and are comparable to all other such works. Making these comparisons is crucial to seeing art more objectively, but it also helps to open up new imaginative territory for ourselves. Making and looking at abstract art are neither disengaged nor esoteric activities; they connect us more securely with the real world. It is our intention in this ’Review’ to consider the flux and flow of visual structures as offered by abstract paintings and sculptures from the Sixties onwards, which have all in their various ways convinced us of their form. With the exception of the two very large sculptures illustrated, all the work in this catalogue will be exhibited at either the London Art Fair 2008, or at the exhibition at Poussin Gallery which follows. We continue like last year to emphasise the Seventies, which remains a favourite decade of ours, but we also have some new works to show, which offer a contemporary vision of form and space. Whenever they were made, these abstract paintings and sculptures retain their inherent formal and spatial values, which the artists have made implicit to their work. Poussin Gallery 2007 |