- City
- Ottawa
- Booth
- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 379
Chris Barnabe
Can the piece visually represent an intersection, a relationship, a psychological state; or transition? That moment of commingling, that overlap, that coming together of: DNA, psychies, bodies, dancers, actors, streets. The objects move around the picture plane as if that plane were a: microscopic slide, a lifetime, a bed, a stage, a field or game, a city…
These paintings are laid out on archival paper and then painted with acrylics. The syntactical geometry is constructive, urban, architectonic. There are echoes of orientation and spatial codes that reverberate across the two entities. The diagonals sharpen the composition, move the eye. The colours are bold and solid and support this provocation of the viewer’s eye.
And for all of the geometric stability of the individual entities, when they are combined, they are in a provocative compositional position; asymmetrical, off balance - as if learning to adjust to the other.
