oil stick and pencil on canvas, with artist's frameClearing
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This abstract painting features a striking circular composition against a dark background. The dominant element is a large, abstract eye-like form rendered in soft blues and whites, evoking a sense of contemplation and introspection. The eye is surrounded by textured brushstrokes in warm tones of red and orange, suggesting a fiery, otherworldly landscape. The artist's unconventional approach to color, form, and composition creates a dreamlike, surreal atmosphere, inviting the viewer to engage with the work's symbolic and emotive qualities. The historical context or the artist's intention behind this piece remains open to interpretation, leaving room for personal reflection and engagement with the artwork. ...
Viewing Harold Ancart’s paintings begins with a recognition of naturally occurring elements or forms – seascapes, sunsets, icebergs – but his works move beyond representation. They draw out, magnify and invert natural colour palettes, simultaneously simplifying and complicating forms, and leaning into abstraction. The artist presents technicolour vignettes of minute acts alongside seismic shifts. The geometry of Ancart’s forms, and the play and tension between surface and depth is reminiscent of Bay Area Figurative Movement painter Richard Diebenkorn. Ancart is also inspired by Frank Auerbach and Oskar Kokoschka, which is apparent in his bold use of colour and his embracing of expressionism and representation with a reluctance to be consigned to either genre.
Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...
C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...
