SPENCER SWEENEY – VIVA LAS VEGAS
2017-01-30Sweeney’s artistic practice stays within the genres and styles of the fine arts, music, and performance. His creative work has always been informed by musical, visual, and social impressions and encounters. Even though the title ‘Viva Las Vegas’ may suggest otherwise, this exhibition is actually the result of months of introspection and a conscious focus on working exclusively as a painter in the studio. The artist worked on several canvases simultaneously, and with Sweeney’s well-known talent as a communicator, it is easy to imagine how in the process, the paintings interrogated and fertilized each other, how they fought and lovingly made up, and then turned away from each other again.
The paintings and drawings seem to show emotionally charged creatures and energetic spaces and landscapes. In explosive, distorted pictures with pulsating colours, the works go back and forth between artistic methods and media.
Opposite – Hide This Face, 2016/2017
Exhibition runs through to March 4th, 2017
Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin
Grolmanstrasse 32/33, 10623
Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117
Berlin
Germany
