Via Negativa

Via Negativa; a title taken from a medieval mystical tradition which found darkness singularly illuminating.

In Via Negativa, the opulent sunflowers so beloved by Van Gogh have been re-worked into a series of ‘brutal bouquets’ each bloom blackened and shrivelled, as if some centre to a dying star.

Exhibited:

Blacker Gold, Solo exhibition, Haunch of Venison, Berlin

Via Negativa

  • Oil on Canvas
  • 92.1 x 73 cm
  • 2008

Via Negativa I

  • Oil on Canvas in Artist's Frame
  • 93.1 x 73 cm
  • 2008

Blacker Gold exhibition 2009 Berlin

  • Installation view "Blacker Gold"
  • Berlin
  • 2009