I remember studying Alberto Giacometti a while back:
I like to think Michael is carrying on with work that Giacometti started. The interface between human and the world. That is the subject, isn't it? Relationship.
What is our point of view? The chair? We are definitely on the ground, but what distance between us and the object of our observation? How much negative space?
These and other questions arise. We at the Underground are very fortunate to have Michael join us. The level of artistic inquiry has been raised. Cultural symbols abound.
"In the sparseness of his
environment, relationship became everything. The human became an icon almost. I
had never witnessed this extreme a motivation to understand the world through
art. To communicate essence.
Anyway, I learned from him that
struggle was OK. He always began working with the knowledge that what he
attempted was impossible, and then he would go ahead and attempt it anyway.
Whatever a particular challenge entailed for me, I found that eventually I
would get to the end of it. Maybe it’s even worth the struggle to get that
final resolution, that satisfaction, when everything becomes focused and
congruent and finished. Thankfully, Alberto gave me that drive to achieve a compelling image in each painting."
from: A Safe Place
by MM Kent
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| Double Negative by Michael Davis Gutierrez |
I like to think Michael is carrying on with work that Giacometti started. The interface between human and the world. That is the subject, isn't it? Relationship.
What is our point of view? The chair? We are definitely on the ground, but what distance between us and the object of our observation? How much negative space?
These and other questions arise. We at the Underground are very fortunate to have Michael join us. The level of artistic inquiry has been raised. Cultural symbols abound.
