VVA VirginiaVisualArts, London
4 Mandeville Place, London W1U 2BF
Exhibition dates: 5th March – 10th April 2020.
Opening times: 10am – 6pm
© Graham Fink
Fink’s monotypes imply flux or perpetual change apparent in our visual experience, cognition and perception. Here the viewer discerns not only one specific image but instead takes on a Vorticist-like montage of movement, a ‘Pareidolian Army’ - abstract forms and shapes engulfed in battle. These allude to our tendency to interpret formations and to conclude stories from their fragmented clues – something that artistic movements such as Cubism and Abstraction, all knew and understood implicitly.
Science and technology of the late 21st century has exposed a deeper mental reality and proved that human behaviour is a product of feelings, thoughts and memories, both on conscious and unconscious levels. The monotypes along with new reliefs works, depict these endless streams of perception - the brain completing external imagery the eye cannot produce. The works are elusive in composition - light and shade, push and pull, vastness and obscurity - a moment travelled in time whilst pulling into a focus.
An op-art like quality gives a deep intensity to the series – intended to take the viewer into another level of consciousness, one which is often experienced in dream and creative processes - a ‘sweet spot’ – when our conscious is hyper alert but simultaneously there is a type of transcendental meditation. Through the fragmented and distorted compositions of the monotypes, Fink intends for viewers to revisit both memories and dreams and patterns within.
Artist, Graham Fink says “In Transition is an inquiry into mind as process. I am interested in watching the uncensored mind at work and witnessing narratives as they arise. In the very act of watching, the viewer affects the phenomenon - by looking at the works, the audience becomes involved in the creative process. “
In Transition exposes human desires to identify and connect with the landscape before us, both real and imagined.