Contemporary Art: Daniel Heidkamp @ Half Gallery New York

(Drivebycuriosity) - Manhattan´s East Village is a
cluster of dives and fast food places, but there is at least one art gallery which has frequently interesting exhibitions: Half Gallery. They display now works by Daniel Heidkamp (halfgallery). The show is called "Make Hay".

 

I like the use of light. Apparently the artist was inspired post-impressionist artists like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. The style is known as "Fauve". The image on the top of the post also reminds me of David Hockney`s pool paintings, just without the boys.

 

 

 

The press release explains that Heidkamp`s  images "emerge from his ongoing investigation into the art historical landscape of the South of France: mapping the seashores, mountains, and villages employed as inspiration for so much important painting of the last centuries right up until today". 

 

I also enjoyed this paragraph in the press release:

"In “The Decay of Lying” which Oscar Wilde wrote as a companion essay to “Dorian Gray,” the author contends that nature imitates art. He’s talking about this idea that we only perceive what we can conceive. There were no fogs in London until artists started painting them and all of a sudden people were dying of respiratory illnesses. Oscar Wilde was into this notion, almost his way of doing art criticism. Liberties were taken to make his point. The simple fact that art was superior to nature."

 

To be continued