15 March - 20 April 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, March 15th, 5 – 7 PM Opnun Föstudaginn 15. mars kl. 17-19
i8 Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Callum Innes. This will be the artist’s first exhibition at i8 gallery and his first in Iceland.
Innes will be showing a selection of works, both oil paintings and watercolours, from 2012–2013. Innes uses a complex process of applying and removing paint, a technique that has been referred to as ‘un-painting’. Paint is washed away from the canvas or paper, bringing luminosity to the work while at the same time revealing varied veils of colour buried within the seemingly monochromatic pigment. In this way Innes works back to front, basing his work on reduction, as he explores the balance between control and chance.
Innes is perhaps best known for his on-going Exposed Paintings series, paintings that explore the intrinsic value of colour as well as the contrasts of solid and opaque and of dark and light. They capture a moment in time – like snapshots of works in continual progress – and at the same time they retain a fragility and tension from the inbuilt possibility of failure.
Callum Innes was born in 1962 in Edinburgh. He is one of the most renowned abstract painters of his generation and his work has earned widespread recognition worldwide. Innes was a Turner Prize finalist in 1995.
In collaboration with i8 Gallery, Innes has produced a special edition; Isolated Form.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION: Hamish Fulton I 25 April - 1 June 2013
For further information please contact Audur Jörundsdóttir: [email protected]
