Paul Senyol and Katherine Spindler have exciting solo exhibitions at Barnard Gallery, running through into June.
- Of Time and Place: The Paintings of Paul Senyol
Paul Senyol describes the selection of paintings included in the exhibition as an album of experiences in paint. The works are autobiographical in inception but these autobiographical events are obscured by Senyol’s painting process such that the task of archaeology returns to us in how we receive these visual maps. Memory and narrative are hinted at in titles and graphic orientations in the same way that a flaneur can read the banality of the street, where car tire imprints on a curb and broken glass shards suggest the criminal or blundering.
- Katherine Spindler: Interlude
Work by Katherine Spindler is currently on show in the gallery’s second space adjacent to the main gallery. Smaller in scale and scope this room allows for a more personal and intimate engagement with works. Spindler’s paintings explore intermediary states and emotions, attempting to ‘hold time’ her painterly compositions present, as it were, the space between moments, the interstice of time and place. A defining characteristic of Spindler’s oeuvre is the unlikely marriage of movement and stillness, of tumult and quietude that elicits a similar mix of emotion in the viewer. In examining her paintings one has the sense that things are moving just beneath and beyond the surface, too vast to fully perceive or understand. With a quiet immensity and arresting gravitas, her work sees light and shadow flicker and evade, swirl in eddies, swell and recede. The surface of the canvas, like water, is unstable, constantly shifting and undulating while maintaining a meditative stillness that both captivates and mystifies. Often blurring, veiling, or erasing the images she works with, Spindler’s intention is to evoke rather than explicate, to suggest more than to prescribe
WHAT: Paul Senyol and Katherine Spindler
WHERE: Barnard Gallery, 55 Main St Newlands, Cape Town 7600
WHEN: until 14 June 2022Â Opening Hours: Mon – Fri 10:00 – 16:00 Sat 10:00 – 12:00
INFO: T +27 021 671 1553 | E gallery@barnardgallery.com | VisitÂ
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