Untitled (has sail boats)
2013 - Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
28 x 23 cm
Nolan Simon
Nolan Simon is a figurative painter whose practice reflects and addresses phenomena of image proliferation, the artistic legacy of appropriation and the history of modern painting. As he started working mainly with found images, Noland questioned in his early work principles of authorship, ownership and consent in the age of social media and capitalised content creation. Noland’s realist painting practice then evolved towards a more grounded and intimate take on portraiture and still life based on staged studio scenes and common life situations that he captures in photographs, commonly involving friends and fellow artists. Engaging with a form of reproduction, or even transformation, from still image to painting, Nolan is interested in the pictorial capacity to render and highlight structural qualities in low-quality or often random pictures. A sense of the contemporary borne in the essence of his models is met with references to the history of portraiture from classical to contemporary painting.