Michael Carter

Location

Penwith Gallery, St Ives

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Dates

Sat 9th April, 2022 — Sat 7th May, 2022
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10:00 am |
Private View Friday 8th April 17:30 - 19:30

About this event

Reconfigurations.

Reconfigurations is an exhibition of photographs in which form and colour have been accentuated to the point of abstraction. They were taken in industrial estates, recycling centres, deserted buildings, scrapyards and other overlooked places in the South West, and depict rusted iron, blistered paintwork, broken plaster, faded notice boards, splintered timber and stained stone.

Photographically I was drawn to things that were already transformed or transforming. These were manufactured things that were no longer used and maintained and where time and exposure to weather had taken hold and refashioned them. They were things that were degrading and breaking up, things that had surrendered their original identities and had acquired new forms. Already they were moving towards abstraction.

Imposing both highlight and shadow onto a digital photograph penetrates the surface and makes conspicuous features only faintly seen, and colours can change and enrich in unanticipated ways. Relationships between forms can also alter radically, and new ones come into view. But everything that occurs is what is actually there, insofar as it is not imported from a foreign source. This is the process that delivers and concludes the abstraction. It expresses the idea of things becoming something other than what they first appear. In bringing the pictures to completion I was absorbed by why and how fragments of the external world can be meaningfully reconfigured to express the internal world.

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01736 795 579 | https://penwithgallery.com/exhibition/studio-gallery-michael-carter-2022/

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