Justin Mortimer
By: [Martin Herbert, Coline Milliard]
Contributors: Herbert, Martin, 1973-; Milliard, Coline; Parafin (London, England); Djanogly Art Gallery
Publisher: Lecturis
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Eindhoven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9789462261358
Subjects: Exhibitions; British Painting
Description: Justin Mortimer (1970) is a British artist whose paintings consistently invite us to question the relationship between subject matter and content, beauty and horror, and between figuration and abstraction. While the imagery is almost exclusively pitiless, the texturing of the paint, the play between light and shade and the passages that lead from photo-realist definition to near-abstract formlessness are so sensitively handled as to make the work at least partially redemptive as well as to indicate a key philosophical dimension: the oblique relationship between evidence and interpretation. Exhibition: Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK (07.03-31.05.2015) / Parafin, London, UK (22.05-27.06.2015).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Parafin, London, May 22-June 27, 2015; Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, March 7-May 31, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.