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Brian Donnelly: Reassemble
With 'Reassemble', Donnelly expands upon previous work to explore portraiture as a record of loss as opposed to eternal likeness. Accordingly, each piece sees Donnelly painting figures with exquisite technique before taking a figurative hammer, blowtorch, rope or rake to the canvas. As the visual information deteriorates, identities turn into indefinite abstractions. Paradoxes present themselves as being contingent upon one another in order to exist at all. Meanwhile, a brilliant and unmistakable aesthetic persists.
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With 'Reassemble', Donnelly expands upon previous work to explore portraiture as a record of loss as opposed to eternal likeness. Accordingly, each piece sees Donnelly painting figures with exquisite technique before taking a figurative hammer, blowtorch, rope or rake to the canvas. As the visual information deteriorates, identities turn into indefinite abstractions. Paradoxes present themselves as being contingent upon one another in order to exist at all. Meanwhile, a brilliant and unmistakable aesthetic persists.
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