“Mary Heilmann: Memory Remix” delivers an electrifying jolt at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles. (Mario de Lopez / Mary Heilmann, Hauser & Wirth and 303 Gallery) At: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-mary-heilmann-review-20180727-story.html (Accessed 23.03.2021)
“I am obsessed with the space in Asian painting….how there can be several kinds of space at once. I play with this idea as I look, my eye and my mind flicking back and forth from one sense of space to another.
This is the front. That’s behind. No that’s the front and this is the background. That’s an edge. No it’s a line. That’s a space. No, it’s a thing. Round and round, and over and over.”
(Heilmann, Mary,1999:7 from OCA, Painting 2)
Mary Heilmann's method of work, in my opinion, is simplification and work with the next dimension. This is a kind of transfer of sculpture into the painting. The artist sees the shape in the real world and then simplifies it to colour and composites it with other shapes. In doing so, she takes into account the form of the stretcher itself, or even the sculptures themselves become part of the picture.
Mary Heilmann is inspired by new technologies, in particular the computer and the adaptation of colour pallet to work on the computer. Or, for example, American drawn cartoons. She borrows colour and brings it into her work.
In this example, I see a lot of similarities with my approach to work. I transfer lines and a plane to a volume, or vice versa, a volumetric transfer to a flat one. So the colour for me ceases to be flat in the picture I want to sculpt and feel it. And just like Mary Heilmann finds inspiration in American culture, I am inspired by my own. For example, I see colour very different. It is not as simple as, for example, Mary Heilmann represents it. I saw palettes of ancient Russian icons and the tone grades of Russian masters - this is a different colour.
The whole world is a space with matter. And this matters move, interact with each other. To be limited to only one plane is to stop your development. Therefore, if there is an opportunity to study perspective or colour in natural space, then this is the surest way.
Commenti