IN THE GALLERY: Oblique Variations
Oblique Variations, 2022
Installation View
Photo: Simon Strong
Oblique Variations, 2022
Installation View
Photo: Simon Strong
Oblique Variations, 2022
Installation View
Photo: Simon Strong
Oblique Variations, 2022
Installation View
Photo: Simon Strong
Oblique Variations, 2022
Installation View
Photo: Simon Strong
Oblique Variations, 2022
Installation View
Photo: Simon Strong
Cavea, 2021
oil on canvas
183 x 152 cm
$12,000, Framed
Photo: Charlie Hillhouse
$12,000, Framed
Arabesque with Blue, 2022
oil on canvas
183 x 152 cm
$12,000, Framed
The Dream of Innocent, 2022
oil on canvas
183 x 152 cm
$12,000, Framed
Photo: Charlie Hillhouse
Recline with Rose Tint, 2022
oil on canvas
183 x 152 cm
$12,000, Framed
Trefoil with Rose Tint, 2022
oil on canvas
183 x 152 cm
$12,000, Framed
Loggia, 2022
oil on canvas
183 x 152 cm
$12,000, Framed
Repose with Rose Tint, 2022
oil on canvas
183 x 152 cm
$12,000, Framed
Oblique Variations, 2022
Installation View
Photo: Simon Strong
Oblique Variations, 2022
Installation View
Photo: Simon Strong
Simon Degroot
24 Jun - 16 Jul 2022
Oblique Variations is an exhibition of new large-scale paintings by Simon Degroot where monochrome abstraction adopts an approximate sensibility of mid-century modernism. Beginning from a place of reproduction, these works use hard edge form and flatness combined with a complex layering of process colours to consider cultural and art historical legacies.
In these paintings, everyday details such as architectural and other forms are collected and stripped of their specific reference through a process of copying and simplifying. This process creates a distance from the original details causing the works to trade instead in echoes, shadows, and absences, opening a space for interpretation in our contemporary moment.