- Venue
- Westminster Reference Library
- Starts
- Saturday, August 1, 2009
- Ends
- Saturday, August 14, 2010
- Address
- Westminster Reference Library, 35 St. Martin's Street, London WC2H 7HP
- Location
- London
Tomas Georgeson will be exhibiting his new series of paintings influenced by the controversial Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch at the Westminster Reference Library as well as two paintings of his uncle, actor Tom Georgeson, which will form the centrepiece of the show. His uncle has appeared in numerous television productions and films, as well as stage work and has greatly influenced his nephew as an artist.Tomas’s classic style oil paintings have a twist of modern elements, documenting performance and installation art, manipulating traditions and exposing weaknesses. As memories of the live events fade their significance begins to change until all that is left is a painting, perfect in its antiquity, like the centuries of paintings before it. Blood, nudity, lighting effects, ultramarine blue, masks, written text and heroic failure all take on ancient significance in painting by default, without the need for irony or cooked up arbitrary mythology.Tomas has frequently exhibited in London since graduation from Central St Martin’s in 2006, most notably with ‘Contemporary Art Projects’ and recently shortlisted for the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize.He was the Royal Society of British Artists Rome scholar in 2005 and continues to build his reputation as ‘One of the most exciting emergent painters in Europe’ – Nice Magazine, March 2009.
