- Venue
- John Hansard Gallery
- Starts
- Tuesday, July 1, 2008
- Ends
- Saturday, August 30, 2008
- Address
- John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
- Location
- South East England
Juan Bolivar's paintings deal with the language of abstraction and formalism making a direct reference to our familiarity with hard edge and colour field paintings. At the same time, Bolivar reconfigures this stylistic appearance to create a playful figuration, sometimes evident, sometimes hard to recognise, like fantasy visions. In 'Geometry Wars' Bolivar presents a new body of work, painted mostly in 'greyscale' and muted tones depicting cartoon-like 'tragicomic' images. Here the palette becomes a filter to show a flipside to the humour associated with his paintings, reminding us, in the words of Peter Ustinov, that comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
