Alun
Williams

UP . 14.04.2023

Born in 1961

Lives and works in Peillac (Morbihan, France) and Brooklyn (New York)

  • Moulin de Guéveneux, 17 Guéveneux, 56220 Peillac

Represented by Galerie Anne Barrault

galerieannebarrault.com

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It is hard to grasp a painting that does not let you grasp it using the usual approaches, which are the relation to modernism and postmodernism, going beyond figuration, and the return of the latter, that is being endlessly postponed, announced, vilified, and foiled. As a rule, to broach a pictorial work, one attempts to make ever more subtle classifications, which try to pin the painter down within one category or another, rather in the way that people have always tried to classify animals in order to objectify them and make them subjects for study. So, in painting, there are two great reigns, that of abstraction and that of figuration, which have been violently clashing for more than a century and a half, […]