Gooden Gallery

Take me anywhere, I don't care. I don't care.
SEAN BRANAGAN

at GOODEN GALLERY
SEP 2nd – OCT 17th 2010

Sean Branagan describes the urge in his studio to hold one end of a ribbon and throw the other end outwards, through and into the work. This feels less about creating a navigable bridge between the tangible and intangible (because this assumes a difference, or a journey, that takes you from one thing, to another, different thing - the conceptual world of the painting and his own reality) it is more about an orchestration of seeing and feeling the work homogenously, about embracing the idea that perhaps there is no difference, perhaps there is only one thing – ‘The Real’.

In ‘Constructs in the Mind of a Sceptic’, lines of drawing are conventionally applied onto the Perspex, as a painter might apply them to his canvas, but then they are also (unconventionally) applied at the filming stage as part of the figure’s environment. As the figure moves, some of the lines are attached to her body and move to her will. We are presented with drawing that was made before filming took place; drawing made during the filming, by the figure as she moved/moves; drawing on the surface of the Perspex and finally drawing on the walls- created by the shadows that result from the surface, in places, being transparent.

Caravaggio – ‘beyond the fingers’
In Caravaggio’s ‘Supper at Emmaus’ 1601, the picture plane is established by a figure on the right, whose left arm and fingers reach out towards the viewer. Those fingers may as well mark the edge of the world. They actually mark the edge of the space in the painting, but they indicate a potential to break through, pop the bubble; touch us. In ‘Odd things persist for inexplicable reasons’ the bars around the head and face extend out towards us; actually pop the bubble. Resin on the surface of the work titled ‘Fleshless Lovers’ magnifies the pixels in the film, drawing them out, and away from the image inside the painting.

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