BRENT WADDEN – ASLSP
2024-09-23Brent Wadden constructs the surface like a weaver, yet approaches it like a painter and refers to his weavings as paintings. He started out in oil, the materiality of his early painted works somehow reminiscent of textiles, and it is this similarity that ignited his departure into the realm of fibres. Intricate weaving panels are sewn and mounted on canvas, then stretched and framed, as one would a painting. The way form and colour emerge and take up space in the composition is similar to large swathes of paint or well blended brushstrokes, but singular in that the physical structure of his works is at once the surface, as well as the material that covers it. Boundaries between mediums are blurred, and hierarchies among disciplines are dismantled. Brent Wadden’s woven paintings seem to reconcile a formally trained hand with a hand that touches out of curiosity.
Opposite – Untitled, 2024
Exhibition runs through to November 16th, 2024
Peres Projects
Karl-Marx-Allee 82
10243 Berlin
Germany
