Ian McKeever
Darkness folds into itself, black too
24 Sep – 27 Nov 2021
'Darkness folds into itself, black too, has a tendency to shy away from the light. Attempting to pull black away from introspection is a part of the challenge of using it as a colour. One wants to make it breathe, open out into the world.'
"The surface of the paintings is an emphatic two-dimensional plane, and the paint is applied in thin layers. In that sense, in the first instance texture is visual, not physical. The ‘bodying forth’ they suggest is held on a flat plane, as the paintings are wall-bound. This is the strange paradox in painting."
McKeever’s Henge paintings form the latest developments in a career that spans more than five decades, and, sustaining the approach that he first adopted in 1976, the artist worked in series.
