New Work press release

该Knoedler&Company公司的新闻稿:

唐凡弗利特

最近的绘画

November 11 – December 5, 1998

One senses that Van Vliet doesn’t see these images so much as receive them. They rise up in him, like dreams which seem to arrive from some remote and mysterious place, and they emerge on the canvas. – John Yau (1)

Knoedler & Company, in association with Michael Werner Gallery of New York and Cologne, is pleased to present an exhibition of the recent work of Don Van Vliet.

唐凡弗利特(二加州1941年)是一个极为认可的地下作曲家,摇滚音乐家和作家在60年代中期,这个名字Beefheart队长下。雷竞技ios下载虽然他作为一个视觉艺术家从小工作 - 而被认定为天才 - 在1982年,凡弗利特离开音乐的世界完全专注于绘画和素描。他的第一次个人展览在科隆和纽约在1985年举行。

Van Vliet’s paintings have been described as “painterly transformations of the natural world into visionary views” (2) – frequently interior landscapes peopled by flattened and stretched, gravityless figurative shapes. In the idiosyncratic “metamorphosizing realm” (3) of his pictorial spaces:

The forms, images, abstract squiggles, pictographs, and painterly passages evoke a non-hierarchical world in which insects and shadows are articulated with the same intensity as a man in a boat or a floating circle. (4)

John R. Lane, former Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has described Van Vliet as a “modernist primitive. ..an artist whose remarkable intuitive gifts and love of nature have combined to create highly charged paintings that are at once jolting as well as lyncal.” (5) In the artist’s own words:

Actually, what I try to do is turn myself inside out on canvas, to freeze the moment so that the person seeing it can observe what I froze. I try to turn what is going on in me into a still life of that moment. (6)

凡弗利特 - 谁是自学成才的 - 通常是在黄色和棕色赭,绿,红棕色和黑色,颜色让人联想到莫哈韦沙漠,在那里住了好几年的调色板工作在一个温暖的白色地面。在他的画中,画家出现在他在其他媒体的经验可借鉴 - 比如,他觉得他的艺术和蓝军之间具有特殊的亲和力。他已经创作发现一个令人难以置信的变化奥德赛。正如他曾说过:

谈到不同的艺术形式像计数雨滴:有大小河流和海洋,但它毕竟是同一种物质(7)

His music and his painting seem linked in both form and content:

基序的识别性;文书的未抛光处理;粗模糊度,构造,和谜语中的叙述;透明度和密度:这一切也同样放在一起,密切参照人体,其能量的所有微妙和原油振动,以及一个单独的:它追踪世界上熟悉的和的边界私人和轮廓每个SONAL叙述的颜色和数字,其语言不能完全下站了起来,即使一切都在画面简单而全面布局。(8)

1989年,唐凡弗利特了他的首张个人博物馆展览,在现代艺术旧金山博物馆;1994年博物馆回顾展前往比勒费尔德艺术协会,博物馆瓦尔德霍夫在德国,Kunsthallen Brandts Klcedenfabrik在丹麦和布莱顿博物馆和艺术画廊在英国。

  1. 约翰·亚。“简介”,唐凡弗利特EXH。猫。(纽约:迈克尔·维尔纳1991)N.P.
  2. Yau.
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  5. 约翰·r·莱恩。没有Van Vliet:新exh工作。猫。(年代an Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1988- 89) n.p.
  6. 唐凡弗利特报价在卢卡法拉利。猪前“珍珠。冰淇淋的乌鸦。在Beefheart船长在站起来工作”音乐和绘画之间的关系,中止:唐凡弗利特EXH的艺术。雷竞技ios下载猫。(奥斯菲尔敦:Cantz出版社,1993年)26。
  7. 艺术ist’s statement, unpublished.
  8. 罗伯托Ohrt。“唐凡弗利特”中站起来,中止:唐凡弗利特EXH的艺术。猫。(奥斯菲尔敦:Cantz出版社,1993)40-1。

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