Sunday, June 15, 2008

Devotio Moderno: Joe Coleman/Northern Primitives

Joe Coleman... In the Realms of the Unreal (1998, Acrylic on Panel, mounted on child's foot pajama fabric). From the exhibition Devotio Moderno: Joe Coleman/Northern Primitives at Simon Dickinson in New York. "...Dickinson is delighted to present an exhibition of the work of Joe Coleman alongside paintings by Northern Primitive artists. Joe Coleman's intricate and visionary paintings defy classification with any contemporary school. Following the recent travelling show in Berlin's KW institute and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Joe's paintings have gained an ever increasing number of admirers. His fascination with themes derived from religion and primitive painting, and his meticulous and detailed style of unabashed realism, have led to numerous comparisons between his art and the paintings of the northern renaissance. All his works are united by a very personal autobiographical theme, and in many ways relate to the early primitive devotional paintings."

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