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thomas ackermann
Canada
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Curved shapes
15 pieces
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Pigments, Organic material on Synthetic board
- Other details : Artwork on fixed support. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 45x69in
About this artwork
This work is part of a series that I called SCULPAINTINGS, since these objects are neither paintings or sculptures directly. They are deep, relief, irregular shaped, and carved images. The primary support is construction foam often sandwiched between two layers of heavy paper. The paper has been extensively worked with pigmented gesso, burnished, at times, to a glossy surface, on one side and leaving the other side flat or matt in appearance.
MOBY… DICK is not 2-sided and is viewed like a normal painting. It is in 2 separate sections hung in close proximity or can be split up as 2 distinct individual works, at the viewers discretion. I have referenced this piece to one of the greatest works of literature, Melville's "Moby Dick". For me, after completion, it just happened to look like a whale covered in Algae. Hence the title of the piece.
MOBY… DICK is not 2-sided and is viewed like a normal painting. It is in 2 separate sections hung in close proximity or can be split up as 2 distinct individual works, at the viewers discretion. I have referenced this piece to one of the greatest works of literature, Melville's "Moby Dick". For me, after completion, it just happened to look like a whale covered in Algae. Hence the title of the piece.
thomas ackermann
Canada
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Thomas Ackermann, trained at York University and The New School of Art, in Toronto Canada. He was mentored by some of the best artists in the country who taught at the NS of A. Over a span of 50+ years of painting he has developed a unique method and manner of application of paint to the canvas surface that confronts the viewer with the overwhelming feeling that in the case of Ackermann‘s paintings, "the medium is the message", a brilliant proposition coined by Marshall McCluhan. Unrestricted in his choice of subject matter, his paint surfaces transcend conventional expectations that engage the viewer more directly into his curious, artistic vision. In an interview, Ackermann once remarked, that his deepest motivation to make a painting, comes from his “romance with eternity”, which might explain the fact there is always a sense of the unexpected in his immensely diverse body of work.
