Entries (RSS) Ian Davenport
DVD Ian Davenport’s 48 metre long painting Poured Lines: Southwark Street transforms the tunnel beneath the railway bridge close to Tate Modern. The painting’s numerous vitreous enamel panels were created in a German factory where they were baked at fearsomely high temperatures. This film follows the artist as he creates this remarkable public artwork. Like all Ian Davenport’s work, Poured Lines rigorously explores the qualities and possibilities of paint but is at the same time a joyful and exhuberant composition. It also responds to the city around it, enhancing the colours and movements of a busy road. Ian Davenport showed his near-legendary “Freeze” exhibition in 1988 and he was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1991. But as his paintings have evolved over two decades, his central concern of colour and abstraction, experiment and everyday, have remained strikingly consistent. Poured Lines exemplifies the simple delight of his very best work. |
