LUKE CAULFIELD – SECOND HAND
2012-07-09The artist’s latest series embraces the failure of historical documentation to relay the elusive experience of an object or event in its own time and place. Focusing on neon light works from the twentieth century, Bernini sculpture and the Mafia bombs that destroyed cultural targets in 1993, Caulfield reflects upon an anxiety to preserve the past, an anxiety to memorialize; instincts that seem to fight against the flow of time.The synergy between Caulfield’s inspiration, perception and
artistic portrayal is succinct throughout his body of work, both consciously and sub-consciously. His paintings play with and break a linear narrative and time structure. Much of the work is filtered through unconventional digital processes (2D and 3D), which allow digital “flaws” to add to the fallible texture of the documentation
Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2012
Lazarides Gallery
11 Rathbone Place
W1T 1HR
London
