An exhibition hosted by Sid Motion Gallery, in collaboration with Mattias Vendelmans.
Sid Motion Gallery is delighted to present, for the first time, works by Ian Homerston, alongside celebrated artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Joaquín Sorolla and Pelle Swedlund.
The exhibition title alludes to one space having an effect on another. Through their compositions, we are presented with spaces that escape our reach and are offered only a glimpse of passage onto the worlds behind.
The unusual cropping of Homerston’s compositions celebrate aspects of mundane suburban landscapes in which he reveals moments of sublime beauty and unsettling serenity. All three artists have explored the surprising effect of focusing on peripheries within the landscape - walls, fences, doors and other boundaries, as suggestions of what might be happening beyond the frame.
Although Sorolla is best known for his exuberant beach scenes, full of playful and youthful energy, his garden paintings demonstrate a very different attitude. He used boundaries as a tool to create tense compositions where the viewer’s gaze is controlled allowing only a slice of the action to be revealed.
One of the motifs which Swedlund used so well was the suggestion of mysterious portals. In ‘Door in the Park’, 1913, we are confronted with an impenetrable door offering an entry point to an alternative space, but we are given no door handle or keyhole to access itAlthough painted, in some cases, a century apart, and from very different geographies, all three artists have an astounding ability to depict the particular light of their environments. They focused on flatness, texture and a broad range of surprising colours that demonstrate their fluency in their medium.