The image depicts a stark, minimalist sculpture on a vibrant yellow background. The sculpture is a simple, geometric form in a dark, earthy tone, resembling a human face with distinct features. The overall composition creates a striking visual contrast, drawing the viewer's attention to the sculptural object and its abstracted facial expression. The artist's use of clean lines, muted colors, and a reductive approach suggests an exploration of form, space, and the human form in a contemporary, conceptual manner. This thought-provoking piece likely reflects the artist's intention to challenge traditional representations and invite the viewer to contemplate the relationship between art, the human experience, and the nature of perception. ...
Pulling from influences that span his Caribbean heritage, voodoo traditions, devotional and Baroque art, Pol Taburet’s paintings are unique, enigmatic and immediately recognisable. While compositional and stylistic elements within the artist’s works are reminiscent of 20th Century painter Francis Bacon – specifically through their abstracted, distorted and sometimes horrifying figuration, and the two-dimensional colour blocking of the figures’ backdrops – Taburet combines acrylic paint with digital airbrushing. Through this combination of new and old technologies, the artist portrays characters that look like computer-generated avatars, perhaps representations of real people rendered through the digital. Hybridity is a notion reflected both in the figures’ reluctance to be categorised as either human or animal, as well as in the undoing of the binary between life and death. The figures appear to be in limbo, a purgatory of sorts, occupying a flattened, liminal space outside of time.
Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...
