Not Here, 2024
Oil on aluminium272 x 240 x 10 cm
107 1/8 x 94 1/2 x 4 inches
The painting has a captivating presence, and although it is abstract, it is reminiscent of an ocean. The painting is not conceived as a landscape, but it refers to it through the composition of the pictorial space and the color palette. It is a reference that Jason Martin describes as “records of a belated naturalism”—testaments to a “naturalism of afterwardsness,” in which the imaginary and real intersect.
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