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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Figurative Exhibition

Creative arecurrently featuring three popular figurative artists in the gallery, Fabian Perez, Al Saralis and David Cobley.

Each artist portrays the subject in their own distinctive style - Perez ooze’s Passion, Saralis withvulnerability and Cobley conveys solitude.

Perez grew up outside Buenos Aires in a turbulent world of political upheaval, where he had an unusual upbringing. His father owned a number of brothels and illegal nightclubs in Campana. It was this lifestyle that influenced Perez, being constantly exposed to beautiful women who could seduce a man “simply by lighting a cigarette”. We see these “ladies of the night” exquisitely portrayed in many of Fabian’s paintings - memories of his youth and the nightlife he observed.
Fascination with the form, structure and movement of the figure continues to be central to Al’s work. His paintings usually consist of a single figure that is stripped of any narrative reference. Recent works have included a series of images where the figure has been fragmented or left incomplete, resulting in work that is powerful, sometimes confrontational and echoes the vulnerability of the contemporary man.

“These days my work is almost entirely about the figure, and how it is affected by the light that falls on and around it. Like many others before me, I am looking for ways of creating drama, mystery and magic in my work.” And it is this drama and mystery that Cobley manages to achieve in his female portraits – conveying the sense of strong and powerful yet lonely and vulnerable women.

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