 "BB79", 2001 acrylic on canvas 127 X 183cm Rebecca Salter Works Salter's paintings are quiet, and calm, and perhaps subliminal. They are spare, where everything has been reduced to its essentials and where every mark, colour, tone, break or variation, counts - and the fewer there are the better. She wants silence, or at the very least whispers. Her working process is labour intensive. The paintings are worked layer upon layer, over and over, and are taken slowly and deliberately from the pronounced and explicit to a finely striated delicate mesh-like surface, made by adding and adding and removing and adding veils of pigment which masks or quietens previous marks and workings, but never obliterates or covers, until they reach a point of emptiness and quiet, and resonance. Salter spent years living and studying and working in Japan, and her paintings are informed by her own interpretation of the materials and processes innate in Japanese art and culture. She shows regularly in the UK, the US, Germany and Japan and is represented in collections throughout the world. Ausstellungsdauer: 9.10. - 12.11.2002 Öffnungszeiten: Mo-Fr 10 am - 6 pm, Sa 11 am - 4 pm Hirschl Contemporary Art 5 Cork Street GB-London W1S 3LQ Telefon +44 (0)20 7495 2565 Mail hirschl@dircon.co.uk www.hirschlcontemporary.co.uk |
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