VAUGHN SPANN

For this new series of paintings, Vaughn Spann has immersed himself in materiality and movement, pushing the viewer to consider his works as much in a form of pause, or even contemplation, as in the dynamism linked to the expressiveness of gesture. Proof also that the subject or the motif is a base of vocabulary that can be reused at will. Strong in colors, the Marked Man works presented in this exhibition are seen in a multiplicity composed of two panels of a total scale of more than six meters.

The tones oppose and respond to each other: deep blues and purples to sparkling oranges and pinks, creating rhythms and movements that blur the contours and make the image more abstract. From the side, one can see the thickness of the paste and the pleasure Spann had in working with it. He cites Bram Bogart, endorsing his very physical paintings and their construction done in a quasi-sculptural manner. As with the Belgian painter, the attention of the eye is focused on the formalism of the piece, even if obviously the X of Vaughn Spann always covers a quantity of interpretations and symbols. From sexual determination given by chromosomes, notably feminine when it splits, while passing by the letter affixed in signature which testifies to illiteracy, this sign is always engaged.

A full press release by Marie Maertens, writer and critic, will follow.