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Art Canadian

David Blatherwick

Cheese, Worms and the Holes in Everything

with James Patton

text by James D. Campbell

introduction by Gilles Hébert

Publisher
Art Gallery of Windsor
Initial publish date
Jan 2007
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919837775
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $15

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Recent international outbreaks of desease demonstrate that, despite our digital sophistication, nature still has the upper hand.The relationship between digital worlds and nature is evident in the way we use language: computer "worms" and "viruses" for example suggest invasion and permeability. The challenge for Blatherwick as a painter is to adapt a slightly new language, or slang, from previous codes in order to express complex and undefined relationships. ...he allows associations to occur-linkages, clusters, overlapping forms-during the process of painting. He has also started to add organic, three-dimensional elements directly to the paintings and to the surrounding walls. The paintings appear to be infecting the gallery, colonizing its spaces with new life.

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