 Something that I cannot deny (2002) oil on canvas, 71 x 56 cm Peter Lynch The Andrew Mummery Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of the paintings of Peter Lynch. Lynch deals directly with the act and substance of painting. In well-orchestrated fields of paint, Lynch has scored his finger through its thickly layered visceral surface. The presence of this mark emphasising the artist's direct relationship to the paint, his physical presence being etched into the painting surface, his authorship undeniably present. It would, however, be a mistake to read these works as simply forms of rhetoric responding to notions of artist as author, or in terms of the history of abstract painting. The works are more complex than that, Lynch is well aware of the difficulty and pitfalls of trying to control painting, of trying to make painting conform to predetermined conceptual positions, painting does not adhere to such rules so easily, it always rebels. The paintings instead torridly open pathways to and forth to Modernism, with varied marks; references juxtaposed, a complexity is created, a complexity that is difficult to place in a simple historical frameworks. Lynch believes in the idea that painting can still achieve something, say something; express something even when one cannot believe in utopia, in purity, in revolutionary powers of geometry and pure colour. Nimbly escaping mere decoration and empty ironies, these thick-crusted paintings with aggressive texture fight out a new rhetoric, develop new positions that nobly question what can still be accomplished. Peter Lynch was born in Burnley in 1971. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. He now lives and works in London. Ausstellungsdauer: 25.2. - 29.3.2003 Öffnungszeiten: Tu-Sa 11 am - 6 pm Andrew Mummery Gallery 63 Compton Street UK-London EC1V 0BN Telephone +44 (0)20 7251 6265 Fax +44 (0)20 7251 5545 E-Mail info@andrewmummery.com www.andrewmummery.com |
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