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Description: Galerie Dusseldorf Melbourne Art Fair 2006 Stand 13 Royal Exhibition Building Fitzroy, Melbourne Victoria Australia 2 - 6 August 2006 Simon Gevers Limefield 2006 Egg Tempera on Board 85 x 85 x 3.5 cm $ 2,200 Galerie Dusseldorf Ric Spencer on Simon Gevers previous Exhibition I Like Painting @ Galerie Dusseldorf Gevers' show is called I Like Painting. It's a commitment to the pure aesthetic that Greenberg famously claimed for abstract painting in the 1940s. These canvases have no meaning, no reference to the outside world. Like music, they exist for the enjoyment of the delight they give to the senses. Most of the works consist of a number of careful vertical strokes of a brush filled with a diluted paint over a contrasting underpaint. In White .Happiness, for example, there are two underpaintings in orange then blue. Over this, the vertical brush strokes are in a diluted white. The result is quite beautiful. The blues and oranges are glimpsed here and there in muted form through a white veil of decreasing density.Although essentially without direct - outside reference, I couldn't help being aware of associations on a less conscious level, connections to mists and snowstorms as well as to the symbolic meanings of milk and sperm. Numbers 1-6 in the catalogue hang beside each other with colour contrasts that are too sweet so that the individual works start to seem merely decorative. This is something Gevers needs to watch. In his more subdued works, however, he is an painter that I enjoyed immensely. |
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