Nathan Walsh‘s work

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出身于1972年的英国艺术家Nathan Walsh擅长绘制城市景观。他的作品被世界各地的公共机构和私人收藏。目前他在纽约的Bernarducci Meisel画廊为他的个展做准备。

他创造出了一个与摄影世界完全不同逻辑的另外一个“真实”世界，他呈现给观众一片他完全控制的世界，虽然很多地方是那样的熟悉。但那些被改变大小的建筑物到天空的色彩，都由Nathan Walsh主张。

绘制的阶段是最恣意创造的过程，拿着一盒铅笔和一个橡皮，描绘出透视点不同寻常的建筑图像。他的工作不是简单从照片复制或者眼睛看到现实中去复制，他进行了自己的转化，将其中的潜力深度挖掘，并力求实现让观众觉得能够进入走动和交流的画面。

Central Camera ‘69.5 x 103cms’ oil on linen 2012
image courtesy Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery,NY

 

Chicago in the Rain ‘129 x 183cms oil on linen 2012
image courtesy Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery,NY

 

My work attempts to present a credible space, which whilst making reference to the visible world, and documentary photography obeys it’s own distinct logic. From determining a horizon line at the start of the process to spraying a final glaze of colour I control the nature of the world I present to the viewer. Whether simply changing the size of a building or introducing a structure found on Google Earth, I like the idea of inventing another reality, familiar in some ways to us but fundamentally of my own making.

This is most evident at the drawing stage of the work which is the most open-ended and creative part of my process. Working with a box of pencils and an eraser I will draw and redraw buildings, vanishing points will be shifted and material rearranged. At this point I aim to take ownership of the raw information I’m working with and not let it dictate what’s happening. Creating an urban landscape within my own perspectival space has more potential than simply duplicating the flatness of a photograph. Whilst a camera lens or software package can suggest a mechanical space this is at odds with how we actually experience reality. I’m interested in creating paintings where the viewer feels they can enter into and move around, and talk of the world we live in.

Apple ‘100 x 127cms’ oil on linen 2011
image courtesy Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery,NY

 

Jerusalem ‘157 x 107cms’ oil on linen 2012
image courtesy Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery,NY

 

Reichstag Dome ‘159×229’cms oil on linen 2010
image courtesy Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery,NY

 

New York Reflections ‘160 x 190’cms oil in linen 2009
image courtesy Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery,NY

 

 
Little Russia ‘170 x 225cms’ oil on linen
image courtesy Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery,NY

 

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Born in 1972 Nathan Walsh is an English painter who paints scenes exclusively about the urban landscape. He has exhibited worldwide with world in public and private collections. He is currently preparing work for his first solo exhibition at the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in New York.

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