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An Exceptional Work by Jack Shadbolt
Jack Shadbolt Morning Deck #2, 1980 Acrylic and conte on watercolour board 7 panels: 60” x 40” each Total dimensions: 60” x 240”
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Equinox Gallery is thrilled to present this rare and significant multipanel work by Jack Shadbolt, Morning Deck #2. This expansive, panoramic view from the deck of his studio on Hornby Island demonstrates the artist’s ambitious scale and his iterative process, depicting a collection of the artist’s found and manipulated sculptures derived from elements of the natural world. Much in the way that chapters within a novel deepen the detail and narrative of a written text, the ability to keep adding panels to a work allowed Shadbolt the freedom to realize the full potential of his subject matter. Equinox Gallery 十分欣喜地为大家呈现这幅极为罕见并意义重大的 Jack Shadbolt多画板作品：Morning Deck #2。 这幅作品创作于Shadbolt在其Hornby岛的工作室甲板上。作品中的 广阔全景诠释了这位艺术家雄心勃勃的规模和他的迭代过程，并描 绘出Shadbolt从自然世界的元素中发现并重造的一系列雕塑。就像 小说中的章节深化文本的细节及叙述一样，Shadbolt通过不断为作 品添加画板从而尽情地自由发挥，并实现其主题的全部潜力。
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Morning Deck #2 (Installation View), Equinox Gallery, 2021
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“In this work the sculptures are shown in a row on [Shadbolt’s] deck at Hornby Island, overlooking a field. The ocean and mountains visible in reality from this vantage have been left out of the painting. The sculptures are the literal embodiments of his search for form, having been ‘elicited’ from nature itself.” - Scott Watson, “The Economy of Ritual,” in Jack Shadbolt, 1990.
“在这件作品中，各类雕塑在(Shadbolt)位于霍恩⽐岛的甲板上排成 ⼀排，俯瞰着⼀⽚⽥野。原本能在这个位置看到的海洋和⼭脉被排 除在这幅画之外。这些雕塑是从⾃然本身所‘引出’的，也正是他对 形态追求的真实体现。” ——选⾃ Scott Watson 的 1990 年著作《Jack Shadbolt》中“仪式 经济”章节。
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PANELS
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Morning Deck #2 (detail); panel 1 of 7
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Morning Deck #2 (detail); panel 2 of 7
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Morning Deck #2 (detail); panel 3 of 7
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Morning Deck #2 (detail); panel 4 of 7
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Morning Deck #2 (detail); panel 5 of 7
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Morning Deck #2 (detail); panel 6 of 7
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Morning Deck #2 (detail); panel 7 of 7
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Jack Shadbolt Sketch for Morning Deck #1 1980 Charcoal on Paper Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
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Morning Deck #2 (Installation view), Equinox Gallery, 2021
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Jack Shadbolt Sculptures in a Field, Hornby Island 1987 Charcoal on Paper Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
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“I find that objects which most involve my interests because they go deep in my experience and therefore command my closest attention yield the most meaningful conceptions. This suggests to me that the whole involvement of the artist with his objects is more than factual, structural or external…why he chooses the objects he does and how this subtly conditions the qualities with which he endows their portrayal – with austerity, tenderness, massiveness, etc. – can involve the whole range of human experience.” -Jack Shadbolt
“我发现⼀些事物之所以能特别地引起我兴趣，源于它深⼊在我的经 历中，因此引起我最密切的关注，从⽽产⽣最有意义的构想。这向 我表明，艺术家对他所研究物体的整体参与不仅仅是事实、结构或 外在地……他选择的所做之事，以及他如何巧妙地掌控去描绘事物 的品质——朴素、温柔、厚重等等——可以涉及整个⼈类经验。” — Jack Shadbolt
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Jack Shadbolt in his studio
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One of Canada’s most innovative modernists, Jack Shadbolt (19091998) is known for his paintings and murals that drew from both personal travels and experiences of World War II as well as the social and political context of this time. Shadbolt was born in England in 1909 and at an early age immigrated to British Columbia. In 1930 he met Emily Carr, whose work, together with the Surrealists and early Abstract Expressionists, was very influential in his artistic development. Widely exhibited across Canada and in biennales abroad, Shadbolt’s work is in the permanent collections of all major Canadian museums, and he was recognized with the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.
Jack Shadbolt(1909-1998)是加拿⼤最具创新精神的现代主义者之 ⼀。他的绘画和壁画以于其个⼈旅⾏、⼆战经历、及当时社会和政 治为背景⽽闻名。Shadbolt 于 1909 年出⽣在英国，早年移⺠到 BC。在 1930 年，他遇到了 Emily Carr。Carr 的作品，超现实主 义，和早期的抽象表现主义都对他的艺术发展产⽣了深远影响。 Shadbolt 的作品不仅在加拿⼤各地及世界各双年展中⼴泛展出， 还被加拿⼤所有的重量级博物馆永久收藏。Shadbolt 还获得了加拿 ⼤勋章和不列颠哥伦⽐亚勋章。
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Jack Shadbolt Morning Deck #2, 1980 Acrylic and conte on watercolour board 7 panels; 60” x 40” each Total dimensions: 60” x 240” For more details, contact info@equinoxgallery.com Image credits: Rachel Topham Photography: pp. 1,3,6-12,14,19