If you are down in London and looking to go and see some contemporary drawing, why not try and fit in Andrew Vass. Andrew Vass’s drawings start from a kinetic experience of landscape, a landscape we move through and see around us, landscape as a perceptual environment. He is also interested in how we experience landscape in our own bodies; our physical sense of how we navigate the external world and the way it impresses itself on us.
His drawings are perceptual journeys and bodily displacements as they are transmitted through the way his hand manipulates charcoal or pastel. Each mark is a trace of the shape an observed or remembered landscape takes in his mind. Different pressures applied as he is mark making transmit an emotional charge. The force that the mark thereby accrues joins the artist’s experience to what we ourselves bring to looking.
He works both on paper and site specifically, the sites he works on linked to the points from where he observes, buildings or other surfaces then been used to record his perceptions on to.
Andrew Vass
DESIRE PATH
Joint show with Nuala O'Donovan
PRIVATE VIEW
Thursday 4 June
Open 5 - 27 June 2015
ARTHOUSE 1
Bermondsey
London
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