Date: 1995
Size: 23 x 36 inches
Artist: Colville, Alex
"Colville’s silent images are static. Yet practically all of them tell a story, in a brief, concise plot that does not always have a resolution. Fundamental human situations are their both simple and complex themes: loneliness, isolation, parting, work, leisure, estrangement, love. The only subliminally dramatic, often melancholy laconism of content corresponds to the absolute precision of form by which it is conveyed.
Like hardly another artist, Colville maintains the difficult balance between imagination and sober calculation, formal interest and social commitment. Behind the realistic surface of his imagery lurks the surreal – but a surreal that lacks every trace of theatrical staging or borrowing from psychoanalysis, whose new myths Colville deeply mistrusts." (From Colville's own site, an excerpt from Art of the Twentieth Century, ed. Ingot. Walther. Vol. I Taschen, Koln, 1998)
Exhibition poster in very good condition. Ready to frame.