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Alastair Gordon
Paper Dart Quodlibet IV, 2019, Acrylic and oil on paper. Framed.

2019

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ALASTAIR GORDON Paper Dart Quodlibet IV, 2019 Acrylic and oil on paper. Framed. 94 x 72 cm 37 1/8 x 28 3/8 in. (AGo018) Gordon is a London based artist, currently artist in residence for the City and Guilds of London Art School. Central to his practice is the notion of a painting as a cultural artefact. At first these are paintings about paintings: images that oscillate between artefact and artifice. Certain questions emerge about the replication of the image, craft of the artist and certainty of the viewer. Notions of authenticity lie at the heart of his artistic enquiry, as he looks for evidence of the real thing within his practice. Artists materials such as masking tape and paper are rendered in paint to appear as taped or pinned on a wooden surface, a practice that refers to a specific form of illusionism that proliferated in 17th century Northern Europe called quodlibet (what you will). As Jean Baudrillard wrote in The System of Objects: “We are fascinated by what has been created…because the moment of creation cannot be reproduced.”
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