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Grace,
2017
Gavin Rain
Painting : acrylic
120 x 120 x 8 cm 47.2 x 47.2 x 3.1 inch
€17,500
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About the artwork
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Unique work
Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
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Dimensions cm • inch
120 x 120 x 8 cm 47.2 x 47.2 x 3.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Not framed
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: Netherlands
Up close, Rain’s paintings consist of small concentric dots painted in different colours of acrylic paint. From a distance your eye puts these colours together into one. The further the viewer steps back, the more clear the portrait becomes.
He starts his paintings by making a sketch of the portrait he wants to paint. To decide the place of the dots on the canvas, he either uses a grid, made of strings, or projection. The grid takes about ten hours to make, but is more accurate than using projection, so Rain still uses both techniques. Then he picks the colours for the final dots. He starts by deciding the final colour that he wants a dot to be and starts working backwards. Rain has a list of 14.000 different dots that he has made. Out of this list, he picks the combination that creates the colour he wants.
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He starts his paintings by making a sketch of the portrait he wants to paint. To decide the place of the dots on the canvas, he either uses a grid, made of strings, or projection. The grid takes about ten hours to make, but is more accurate than using projection, so Rain still uses both techniques. Then he picks the colours for the final dots. He starts by deciding the final colour that he wants a dot to be and starts working backwards. Rain has a list of 14.000 different dots that he has made. Out of this list, he picks the combination that creates the colour he wants.
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Villa del Arte Galleries • Spain
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Rain's objective is to broaden people's visual and cognitive horizons by showing them the fantastic and impossible. By combining his origins, his studies, aptitudes and personal talent, Rain has invented an art that is both unique and participative so that all who look at one of his paintings can perceive the convergence of two opposing pictorial styles: the abstractness of the multitude of colourful concentric circles that thicken into dense and imperfect dots in relief, and the figurative aspect of the image that is defined by the sum of these same dots as the viewer takes a few steps back. It is precisely in this backing-off that the artist's intended message lies: in order to acquire awareness of something that is concealed yet right in front of your eyes, or hidden in plain sight, you must distance yourself by moving backwards. His art is a clear invitation to 'back off', to create some distance in life as well, because as Gestalt psychology sustains, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We must view the big picture, the whole, without worrying about isolated events or individual points of view.
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