Fisherman on the Shore
- An Exhibition at the Abandoned Office of Sandbox Industries,
an abandoned venture capital office
Five silk paintings reinterpret a very early canvas by Van Gogh: Fisherman on the Beach from 1882. They vary in color-forces, scale, and the irregularity of their quadrilateral-contours, but transmit a repeating motif of the anonymous figure. As a critique of identity, they are not portraits, but are capturing loose emotions that we all sometimes pass through. There is no place beyond the horizon of the fisherman’s flat plane, a poetic blank slate that rhymes with the semi-abandoned office, the bare desks. The unique deviations of each individual painting in this iterative group are like the differences in days at work: the changing, rotating weather of experience. Perhaps each piece is from the vantage-point of a reproduction of the Van Gogh painting, absorbing and projecting its environment like a chameleon. The doubled Fisherman is a reproduction seen by two people, the glowing Fisherman seen by flashlight.
—Wenzel Beckenbauer, Director of Currency, Münster
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—Wenzel Beckenbauer, Director of Currency, Münster
Fisherman on the Shore installation view, 2020
Figure (after Fisherman on the Beach by Van Gogh in Kröller-Müller museum), ink and pigments on silk, 2020
Figure (after Fisherman on the Beach by Van Gogh in Kröller-Müller museum), ink and pigments on silk, 2020
Figure (after Fisherman on the Beach by Van Gogh in Kröller-Müller museum), ink and pigments on silk, 2020
Figure (after Fisherman on the Beach by Van Gogh in Kröller- Müller museum), ink and pigments on silk, 2020
Figure (after Fisherman on the Beach by Van Gogh in Kröller-Müller museum), ink and pigments on silk, 2020