Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
A Splinter (Study for Painting) is a large graphite work on paper by Hernan Bas that was intended as a study for a later painting. The composition features three unfinished figures, all of whom appear to be observing something unrendered or external to the picture plane. Around the group of figures roughly framed by the outline of a triangle, is a frenzy of loose marks and smudged lines that juxtapose the delicate features of the figures’ faces.
Ambiguous Gestures takes as its point of origin a film Gmelin discovered in his father’s archive. Filmed from a fixed point, it portrays his father in an intimate performance of body painting with a woman unknown to Felix Gmelin. The discovery of this footage was obviously disturbing.
With a degree in painting and inspired by so-called institutional criticism, Felix Gmelin is interested in the possibilities of painting as a form of resistance and its direct relation to a form of socio-political reality...
Hernan Bas creates expressionistic, yet highly detailed figurative paintings of young men...
Ambiguous Gestures takes as its point of origin a film Gmelin discovered in his father’s archive...
Drawing & Print
A Splinter (Study for Painting) is a large graphite work on paper by Hernan Bas that was intended as a study for a later painting...