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The Pointillist Sculpture Park

Gallery Arte Gianni is a private gallery in Frankfurt Germany, it is run by Dr Claudia Gianni, an art historian with affiliations to many collections and museums in Germany and the rest of Europe. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Dr Francis McKee. The title «The Pointillist Sculpture Park» poetically proposes a physical impossibility. This exhibition reflects a sympathy and admiration for the French Post Impressionist painter Georges Seurat and his painstaking work that became termed «Pointillism». There is an oddity about this «ism», which lead nowhere, but remains an appendix to impressionism. Although in no way classed as «Outsider art» it shares many characteristics with art that is classified as such. Part of the research for this project were time spent in the archives of The Prinzhorn collection in Heidelberg , which houses one of the world’s largest collection of works by «Psychologically experienced» artists and dated from 1909 and is still ongoing. As a result of my research here I was able to make the contact between the School Of Fine art and Dr Thomas Røske , the museum’s director, and he visited the school and gave a Friday lecture, followed by a seminar that he and I conducted jointly. For this exhibition I produced a large body of paintings both oil and watercolour continuing long standing explorations within my practise of the physical and psychological intensity achieved in a painting using the formal properties of detail, pattern, mass, and colour. I also wanted to explore the possibility of using these qualities and techniques to describe figures. Generic, mostly antique Egyptian, Greek and Roman sculptures are running motifs in this body of works, they are there simply to serve as three dimensional forms, figures - and as what can be easily recognised as sculpture.