Alan Cristea Gallery, London, is displaying never before exhibited paintings by Paul Winstanley in the UK in an exhibition titled “Print Project Space.”Paintings by British artist Paul Winstanley, never before exhibited in the UK, is being shown (together with prints by the artist) in an exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery, London, to coincide with the launch of the artist’s new monograph — “59 Paintings.”“59 Paintings,” written by Winstanley, presents an artist’s personal view of how paintings are conceived, made and interpreted. He is known for his detailed, realistic paintings of often overlooked, vacant, but familiar landscapes and interiors, which are rendered in a muted palette. The exhibition will include several paintings from the monograph that come directly from the artist’s personal collection. Winstanley, who trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in the 1970s, and now lives and works in London, depicts scenes that include a woman peering out of a veiled window in Fitzrovia, a commuter asleep on the London Underground’s Circle Line, a narrow ribbon of park between office blocks in Canary Wharf, and the interior of a decommissioned government building. These works are based on the artist’s own photographs.The exhibition also includes several print series — “Veil 1-8”, 2008, a set of etchings which takes as its subject the motif of the veil, presents views a of net curtain hanging in front of a window, partially revealing a wooded landscape behind. “Art School I-VIII,” 2016, made from a combination of woodblock and photogravure, depict the interiors of British art schools. The imagery used was selected from over 200 photographs taken by Winstanley when he traveled throughout England, Scotland and Wales photographing unpopulated art school studios, including the Slade School of Fine Art and Goldsmiths, London, during their summer closures.Winstanley is a painter who uses the ostensibly traditional genres of Landscape/Interior/Still Life/Figur to create works of conceptual rigor that present the relationship of the viewer to the painting as central to the content of the work. At once methodical and melancholic, his painterly depictions of landscapes, walkways, veiled windows, TV Lounges, art school studios and individuals distracted in contemplation are rendered in an exacting and subtle palette. Training initially as an abstract and minimalist painter, Winstanley reversed the usual trend of early 20th century artists by moving back towards a new, more self-aware representational work. His paintings, however, do retain much of the aesthetic qualities of the earlier abstraction in their pictorial organization and minimalist feel. His paintings draw as much from historical northern European artists such as Caspar David Friedrich, Vermeer and Vilhelm Hammershoi as contemporary, more conceptual practitioners such as Richard Hamilton.The exhibition is on view through April 5, 2018, at Alan Cristea Gallery, 43 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG, UK.For details, visit: http://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/alan-cristea-gallery/overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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