A place for placeholders

Selma Parlour

A place for placeholders, 2016222 x 160cmSign in to view price
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oil on linenPi Artworks
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The artwork features a striking geometric composition with distinct color contrasts. The central elements are bold, angular purple shapes against a neutral white background, creating a dynamic interplay of forms. The surrounding frame is a vibrant orange, which complements and accentuates the purple tones. The overall impression is one of minimalist elegance and precision, showcasing the artist's mastery of color, line, and spatial relationships. This piece likely reflects the influence of 20th-century abstract art movements, emphasizing a reductive, analytical approach to visual expression. ...

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Selma Parlour
Artist
Selma Parlour
B.1976, British

'My paintings are meticulously rendered through soft films of oil on linen to look as though they are drawn, dyed or printed. My interest is in painting's in extrinsic conventions and the technical problems of the medium. Central to my invented vocabulary are: the frame, flatness, surface,transparency, trompe l'oeil illusion, bands and units of isolated colour, repetition (with variation and displacement), frontality and the singularly-framed and fixed view, and the re-presentation of art and context. The paintings are effectively diagrams or templates; illusion is codified through shaded bands and colour is in-laid as if through a process of marquetry. Colour is a veil (not a skin). The literal transparency of colour borrows from the white primer beneath so that colour glows as if lit from behind. This backlit quality is reminiscent of the screen and photograph. The analogue apes the digital; whilst the space of painting is imagined as a two-dimensional stage space that curtails fictive distance as it represents it.’ ...

Selma Parlour: Artworks
Eleventh hour
Selma Parlour
Eleventh hour, 2016
222 x 69cm
A place for placeholders
Selma Parlour
A place for placeholders, 2016
222 x 160cm
Invented vocabulary IV
Selma Parlour
Invented vocabulary IV, 2017
61 x 51cm
Detail Shot Memory 1
Selma Parlour
Detail Shot Memory 1, 2017
30 x 23cm
Cloud III
Selma Parlour
Cloud III, 2017
86.5 x 61cm
Cloud II
Selma Parlour
Cloud II, 2017
81 x 91cm
Four ways from Sunday II
Selma Parlour
Four ways from Sunday II, 2019
51 x 41cm
Four ways from Sunday I
Selma Parlour
Four ways from Sunday I, 2019
51 x 41cm
Code Margin Frame Complete
Selma Parlour
Code Margin Frame Complete, 2019
41 x 51cm
Double negative II
Selma Parlour
Double negative II, 2020
51 x 76cm
Double negative I
Selma Parlour
Double negative I, 2020
51 x 76cm
Affirming Difference
Selma Parlour
Affirming Difference, 2020
61 x 122cm
Eftsoons VIII
Selma Parlour
Eftsoons VIII, 2021
76 x 61cm
Eftsoons VII
Selma Parlour
Eftsoons VII, 2021
76 x 61cm
Eftsoons V
Selma Parlour
Eftsoons V, 2021
76 x 61cm
Eftsoons IV
Selma Parlour
Eftsoons IV, 2021
66 x 91cm
Eftsoons II
Selma Parlour
Eftsoons II , 2020
76 x 61cm
Eftsoons IX
Selma Parlour
Eftsoons IX , 2021
117 x 76cm
Eftsoons XI
Selma Parlour
Eftsoons XI , 2021
66 x 91cm
Smack Dab XV
Selma Parlour
Smack Dab XV
41 x 30.5cm
Invented Vocabulary III
Selma Parlour
Invented Vocabulary III, 2017
51 x 61cm
Salon XI
Selma Parlour
Salon XI, 2023
137 x 102cm
Chequered past IV
Selma Parlour
Chequered past IV , 2020
76 x 61cm
Invented Vocabulary VI
Selma Parlour
Invented Vocabulary VI
60 x 50cm
Chequered Past IV
Selma Parlour
Chequered Past IV, 2020
76 x 61cm
Sepia II
Selma Parlour
Sepia II, 2020
76 x 61cm
Sepia III
Selma Parlour
Sepia III, 2020
76 x 61cm
Sepia V
Compile Time I
Selma Parlour
Compile Time I, 2017
150 x 120cm
Pi Artworks
Gallery
Pi Artworks
London, Istanbul

Pi Artworks is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in London and Istanbul. Its mission is to offer a diverse and active programme that initiates social change. Pi Artworks was founded in Istanbul in 1998. By moving to London in 2013, Pi Artworks wanted to make connections, explore “shared histories”, and bridge artists from different geographies. Pi Artworks London is located in Fitzrovia in the heart of London's West End. Pi Artworks Istanbul gallery relocated to PIyalepasa in close proximity to Arter Museum, with a 350 sq mt. space designed by Polat Group. Since its inception, the gallery has worked with emerging and established artists with the aim of allowing their work to grow in terms of new projects and exhibitions. Pi Artworks now represents a total of eighteen international artists, two-thirds of whom are female. The gallery is also a member of London Collective, and IGA (International Galleries Alliance). ...

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