Touring Watercolour Exhibition
| Published: 24th June 2008 15:55 |
Northampton Borough Council News Release:
A Short Grand Tour showing in Northampton
The watercolours are the outcome of the artist's own short grand tour of Venice, a city that has inspired artists from around the world for centuries.
His large-scale works turn the tradition of watercolour painting on its head. Semi abstract and large scale, Hunter's watercolours bring the medium bang up-to-date.
According to exhibition curator Professor Simon Olding: "Venice is a destination that makes artists - unless they have a particularly tenacious ability to block out art history - pause for thought on what has happened before in the name of the visual arts."
The exhibition is part of the TEXT + WORK series which aims to encourage discussion and debate about contemporary art by using written commentary alongside visual imagery.
Hunter's Venice, Professor Olding says, is: "as much a place of the imagination as it is of reality. These watercolours could not have been made in the field, firstly because of the physical impossibility of managing huge sheets of paper, secondly because the paintings are arrived at after a period of absence from place. They recall and evoke memories of Venice."
A Short Grand Tour is part of the Venezia! festival presented by Northampton Borough Council and sponsored by Hewitsons.
It will be showing at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery from 5 July to 10 August.
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