This abstract artwork features a bold and striking visual composition. The prominent use of vibrant colors, such as the deep red, vivid blue, and intense yellow, creates a striking and dynamic contrast. The blurred, amorphous shapes and figures, including the dark silhouette at the top and the pair of yellow shapes at the bottom, contribute to an enigmatic and surreal quality. The artist's distinctive style and expressive technique evoke a sense of emotional intensity and psychological depth. This piece appears to be part of the artist's exploration of the subconscious and the complexities of the human experience. ...
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 ...
