David Hall
During the past two years I have been exploring how power and lack
of power are symbolized through architecture and urban organization,
focusing
on the way cities are built and rebuilt both physically and ideologically.
Composed predominantly of fictional landscapes and cityscapes, these
canvases are marked by mysterious aerial perspectives and moody
atmospheres. The
leitmotif of this series is Cologne Cathedral, a structure that has
stood for over 750 years. The Cathedral took over 600 years to build
and was
nearly destroyed during the Second World War when it was hit fourteen
times by Allied bombing. I have drawn on archival images and memory
to created
a series of seven small (37 x 46 cm) compositions and to date one large
one as well as a related series of drawings. These paintings capture
not the frozen moment of a photograph but the continual process
of transition
that define our experience of landscape. This transition is both a
process that the landscape undergoes, through the forces of nature
and the forces
of history, and a process that the viewer undergoes, through shifting
memories and associations with the landscape portrayed.
David Hall
est né à Vancouver
où il a reçu son BFA de la Emily Carr Institute of Art and
Design. Il a ensuite poursuivi ses études afin d'obtenir un MFA
du Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Ses œuvres font partie de
la collection du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, du Musée
National des beaux-arts du Québec, de la Banque d'œuvres d'art
du Conseil des Arts du Canada ainsi que de nombreuses autres collections
privées. Le sujet intérêt principal dans ses tableaux
demeure son investigation des paysages urbains imaginaires. |
