Thegeneralruin
Andrew Browne
10 - 28 September 2024
The general ruin stalks us even as we erect new monuments to hope and optimism. The images here reflect an acknowledgement of, even a perverse fondness for, the fertile allure of decay, for the march of time, its hurtling arrow dragging all in its wake. Times tide. Metallic surfaces, scarred by gesture and the decay of solvents, their fracture the ultimate destination of all matter, allude obliquely to modernist abstract precepts that once wore their formal poise elegantly and their idealism heavily. Now modernism is in ruins, its bones picked over for casual content, much as the meandering shoe-gazer searches the landscape for a poetics of anecdotal incident.
Andrew Browne, 2024.
For the broken-hearted, 2023-4 152 x 110 cm
Aluminium pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
$18,000
Mute witness and the wave, 2023
190 x 160 cm
Aluminium pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
$30,000
Study after My Labyrinth
#8, 2024
51 x 41 cm
Aluminium pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
$4,400
Study after My Labyrinth #10, 2024
51 x 41 cm
Aluminium pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
$4,400
Study after the general ruin, 2024 51 x 41 cm
$4,400
Aluminium pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
general ruin #4, 2024
51 x 41
$4,400
The
Aluminium pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
The general ruin #6, 2024
51 x 41 cm
Aluminium pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
$4,400
general ruin #5, 2024
51 x 41 cm
Aluminium pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
$4,400
The
general ruin, 2024 180 x 180 cm
pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
$30,000
The
Aluminium
void, 2024
51 x 41 cm
Aluminium pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
$4,400
The
wave, 2024 51 x 41 cm
$4,400
The
Aluminium pigment, oil, alkyd, acrylic on linen
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