Lot 16
ADRIAN WISZNIEWSKI R.S.A (SCOTTISH B.1958)
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Auction: 25 August 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
Neon and perspex
Dimensions
61cm x 91cm (24in x 36in)
Footnote
Exhibited:Fruitmarket Gallery , Edinburgh, Adrian Wiszniewski Retrospective - New Work, 1990
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh Festival 1996
Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium 196
't Elzenveld Sint-Jorispond, Antwerp,1997
Note:Wiszniewski started using neon in 1989 as an antidote to his heavily worked canvases and as avery direct means of communicating to a new audience. Duncan Miller comments in his introduction to William Hardie's 1994 exhibition :-'Neon signs are composed of colour and line, the two most basic elements of the language of western painting. In Wiszniewski's neon works colour and line are as completely alive as in any painting, yet they are freed from the burden of artistic 'self-expression' by the way they are reduced to mechanical form. Works like these are a new, technological version of that idealism which links Matisse's paper cut-outs to the neo-classical tradition.