until Saturday June 01 2013
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
T : +32 (0) 2 648 14 05
8 rue Charles Decoster
Brussels
Belgium
Galerie Nathalie Obadia is delighted to present Pieter Schoolwerth’s first Brussels solo exhibition, following Portraits of Paintings in Paris in 2010.
Shadows Past is comprised of recent works that, like those in Schoolwerth’s recent After Troy exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York, further the artist’s pictorial research that began with his Z-Axis Cycle and Portraits of Paintings series.
Using images sourced from a repertoire of paintings ranging from the Renaissance to the 19th century, Schoolwerth revisits the art of the old masters through a process of methodical and highly original synthesis. Somewhere between abstract ion and figuration, tracing and compression, Schoolwerth’s paintings modify and redeploy visual data from the past in order, as he has stated, “to address the contemporary world.”
