Hand Holding

Michael Thompson

Hand Holding, 202461 x 121.9cmSign in to view price
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oil on canvasFranz Kaka
Description
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This striking black and white photograph captures a dynamic, abstracted composition of human forms. The use of strong contrasts and close-up framing creates a sense of intimacy and emotional intensity. The subject matter conveys a visceral, almost primal energy, with tangled limbs and obscured facial features. The distinctive monochromatic treatment and fragmented perspective suggest an avant-garde, experimental approach, reflecting the artist's intention to challenge conventional representations of the human body and evoke deeper psychological themes. Overall, this thought-provoking image subverts expectations and invites the viewer to engage with its complex, evocative visual language. ...

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Michael Thompson
Artist
Michael Thompson
B.1997, Canadian

Michael Thompson (b. 1997, London, Ontario) is a painter living and working in Toronto. Thompson’s paintings connect the evolution of the image — from early darkroom photography through contemporary digital imaging — to the shifting labour conditions across the 20th and 21st century. Rooted in Thompson’s experience at Ford Motor Company where his father and two grandfathers worked before him, he paints from found images wrought with a nostalgic yearning for the handmade and the aesthetics of manual labour more broadly. Thompson positions this nostalgia as an ever-present condition of the alienated worker, now further disconnected from their efforts through the increasing implementation of automation and artificial intelligence in the workplace. Working within a compositional structure that often references the filmstrip, Thompson explores imagistic analogues for the shifting conditions of the image in modernity, a focus which has seen the artist reference iconic American imagery of the Space Race and the figure of Elvis Presley. Thompson’s painted subjects are fractured and stuck between images of a recent past that can never be relived and the inexhaustible drive toward efficient, productive workplaces aided by the latest technologies. In 2019, Thompson completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Western University and became a resident artist at the Slade School of Fine Art in partnership with Camden Art Centre (London). In 2022, he received a Master of Fine Art from the University of Guelph. The artist has been included in exhibitions in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. His first solo exhibition, Chorus Coda, opened at Franz Kaka (Toronto) in 2023. Thompson is included in Greater Toronto Art 2024 at MOCA, Toronto, the artist’s first institutional presentation. ...

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Hand Holding
Michael Thompson
Hand Holding, 2024
61 x 121.9cm
Franz Kaka
Gallery
Franz Kaka
Toronto

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