Carlo Urbani
2011
pencil on paper
5" x 7"
MARTES, EL VEINTINUEVE DE MARZO, VEINTE-ONCE
Dag Hammarskjold
2004
pencil on paper
private collection, Wellington, NZ
Dag Hammarskjold
2004
pencil on paper
private collection, Wellington, NZ
SABATO, EL VEINTISEIS DE MARZO, VEINTE-ONCE
A great little ex-voto that piqued my interest in Albuquerque at John Isaac's Antiques store in the historical area. It's got everything, aesthetically, that I like in an ex-voto, the pinky/cadmium scarlet floor, the soft blue sky and the beautifully crafted vision of Christ.
Things have been a bit hectic at my end due to several things need attending too, so that explains the lack of posts. Once cleared, I'll post the offending pieces here on the blog to catch you all up!
A great little ex-voto that piqued my interest in Albuquerque at John Isaac's Antiques store in the historical area. It's got everything, aesthetically, that I like in an ex-voto, the pinky/cadmium scarlet floor, the soft blue sky and the beautifully crafted vision of Christ.
Things have been a bit hectic at my end due to several things need attending too, so that explains the lack of posts. Once cleared, I'll post the offending pieces here on the blog to catch you all up!
SABATO, EL DIECINUEVE DE MARZO, VEINTI-ONCE
The photo, top-left, is a corpus-arm of a Crucified Christ statue that used to hang in the east chapel of the San Xavier Mission in Tucson, AZ. This is all that is left. It interested me as the rough wood skeleton is covered in canvas, then gessoed and polychromed. I knew that this was part of the process of making santos, but it's hard to see on complete forms. The saggy, torn canvas brought back memories of the skin surface of one of those bodies found in the bogs in a museum in the the UK. I also remembered a sketchbook drawing and a failed sculpture that I had made in preparation for my show at the Sarjeant in Whanganui in 2007. I had tried to recreate an arm out of cardboard and hot glue, nailed to wood with an ex-voto hanging off it. It didn't work, so I moved to casting in plaster, and the bottom left photo was the outcome. With molds, you can cast and recast, so I did a few variations on the dissected hand, looking at galvanisation, the power of the symbol of the hand. All these pics besides the San Xavier arm can be seen on the MOIV website here:
http://moiv.mattcouper.com/graveyore.html
The photo, top-left, is a corpus-arm of a Crucified Christ statue that used to hang in the east chapel of the San Xavier Mission in Tucson, AZ. This is all that is left. It interested me as the rough wood skeleton is covered in canvas, then gessoed and polychromed. I knew that this was part of the process of making santos, but it's hard to see on complete forms. The saggy, torn canvas brought back memories of the skin surface of one of those bodies found in the bogs in a museum in the the UK. I also remembered a sketchbook drawing and a failed sculpture that I had made in preparation for my show at the Sarjeant in Whanganui in 2007. I had tried to recreate an arm out of cardboard and hot glue, nailed to wood with an ex-voto hanging off it. It didn't work, so I moved to casting in plaster, and the bottom left photo was the outcome. With molds, you can cast and recast, so I did a few variations on the dissected hand, looking at galvanisation, the power of the symbol of the hand. All these pics besides the San Xavier arm can be seen on the MOIV website here:
http://moiv.mattcouper.com/graveyore.html
DOMINGO, EL SEIS DE MARZO, VEINTE-ONCE
Here's some photos of the crowd at La Luz De Jesus Gallery for the opening of 'Everything But The Kitschen Sync'. It was a great night, packed, with a bar out the back. The bottom photo shows my five little paintings in the show.
I also came back from LA with four new-to-me retablos and ex-votos, so I'll post those soon too.
Here's some photos of the crowd at La Luz De Jesus Gallery for the opening of 'Everything But The Kitschen Sync'. It was a great night, packed, with a bar out the back. The bottom photo shows my five little paintings in the show.
I also came back from LA with four new-to-me retablos and ex-votos, so I'll post those soon too.
LUNES, EL DOS DE MARZO, VEINTE-ONCE.
Five orphans that have found homes in the USA recently. I've actually only reproduced/shown one of these works on the internet, either on Facebook, this blog or my website. Many of these figures in the paintings have been kicking around in my work for several years now, yet I'm still getting milage out of them. Usually, if I'm done with them, that's it, I'll leave them be, but these ones specifically, keeps reappearing.
There probably won't be many blogposts over the next couple of days as i'll be away from my computer, but I'll update you as soon as I have a bit of spare time.
Five orphans that have found homes in the USA recently. I've actually only reproduced/shown one of these works on the internet, either on Facebook, this blog or my website. Many of these figures in the paintings have been kicking around in my work for several years now, yet I'm still getting milage out of them. Usually, if I'm done with them, that's it, I'll leave them be, but these ones specifically, keeps reappearing.
There probably won't be many blogposts over the next couple of days as i'll be away from my computer, but I'll update you as soon as I have a bit of spare time.
MARTES, EL UNO DE MARZO, VEINTE-ONCE.
Speak of the devil, this arrived in my inbox this morning, an invitation to the Creative Hawkes Bay Invitational 2011. See Sunday's post to view my painting that will be in the exhibition.
Speak of the devil, this arrived in my inbox this morning, an invitation to the Creative Hawkes Bay Invitational 2011. See Sunday's post to view my painting that will be in the exhibition.
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