Mark Braunias
From Tauranga Art Gallery
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An installation in which the artist has created an internal world of brightly coloured comic figuration across the walls of the Gallery’s Atrium. Paintings on canvas, board, paper, acetate and plywood cut-outs converge towards the central wall where directly hand painted imagery integrates with film footage of the painting process and an animation.
The result is a frenetic energy of humour, play and a sense of the irreverent which delivers an explosion of colour. Braunias has raided his scores of drawing books (his 'visual bank') to translate images which reference art history (past and present) popular culture (70's pop and film stars etc) with a disneyesque hybrid of biological and cartoon forms to present picture puzzles similar to stream of consciousness thoughts.
The artist refers to his work as a "cultivated 'silliness' which disguises layered meanings of how we perceive visual language".
Sponsored by K.D. Kirkby Charitable Trust / Guardian Trust
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