Folly

Although " Folly" is in essence nearer to painting, and explores the fluid moment when painting takes on a more corporeal presence while sculpture becomes surface and colour, it clearly has aspects that are associated with architecture. It was observed by Merleau-Ponty that whereas the painter “takes his body with him” into the representation, it is only in the “major” art of architecture and the “minor” art of gardening that the artist, and consequently the spectator, may literally enter and explore the perspectival projection, transporting the body into the very work of art.

Folly is based on ‘1939 (painted relief)’ by
Ben Nicholson, part of the collection of the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness.

" Folly" Timber, MDF, acrylic, gloss oil paint, 212 x 165 cm, 2001
Credit to Alistair Peebles

 

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