Artist: Matthew Hindley
Essay by: Lloyd Pollack
Gallery: Brundyn+, Cape Town
Dates: 23 February 2011 – 23 March 2011
Website: http://www.brundyn.com/exhibitions/2011/matthew-hindley-an-everlasting-once/
Pages: 33
In An Everlasting Once, Hindley continues his ongoing meditation on the studio as testing ground for a potential creative utopia or, on the other hand, the breakdown of such ideals. Subject matter for the paintings is gathered via a series of shoots, for which Hindley directs scenes much like in the theater, creating tableaus of people, animals and props. The title of the exhibition refers to Hindley’s desire to capture what Cartier-Bresson has described as the ‘defining moment’, a moment frozen in time and ‘a metaphysical tableau capable of expressing the artist’s deepest and most enduring preoccupations’ (Pollack, 2011).
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