155. JONATHAN WATERIDGE
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Jungle
Scene With Plane Wreck
2007 Oil on canvas 272 x 400 cms |
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Group Series Number 1- Sandinistas
2007 Oil on canvas 272 x 400 cm |
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Group Series No.2 - Space Program 2008 Oil on canvas 292 cm x 390 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1972 Lusaka, Zambia
Nowadays:
Lives and works in London
Themes and
style:
Jonathan Wateridge paints on a
large scale, producing grandiose scenes that are part painting, part theatre
set and dominate the galleries that show them. n that way, his work also
recalls big historical scene-stealers like Rembrandt’s Night Watch where
composition, technique and scale transform an animated group portrait into an
image so epic we remain transfixed over three and a half centuries later.
Whether or not Wateridge’s examination of the great Californian myth will
similarly enthral is a moot point, but already it is worth noting how his work
revives archaic history painting, putting it at the service of Hollywood, that
current nadir of cultural attainment, by composing credible narrative scenes
from portraits of individuals pretending to be actors who pretend to be others.
The point is of course the way he convincingly mixes the anachronistic with the
brand new, reinvigorating both.
Techniques:
His work is developed in paintings.
Exhibitions
See all at:
Representative
Galleries:
Marta Cervera
Alminerech
In
his own words:
“Artistically,
my first loves are still very much the same today – the likes of Manet, Goya,
Rembrandt and Velasquez. I have always felt a profound kinship with their
realism, despite believing it impossible for a long time to engage directly with
this kind of work in a contemporary context.”
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