Ever after [Exhibition]

Guild, Derrick

Abstract

An exhibition, held at the Scottish Gallery for The Edinburgh Festival 2019. In Ever After the artist has looked at the most traditional of Joshua Reynold’s orders: portraiture and forced us to interrogate how we look and so what we learn. He takes the miniature, the small oval format, and provides a detail, not a face - against all expectations and in an installation of many of these miniature details our mind tries to reconstruct a whole. He has copied portraits by some of history’s most painterly artists: Velásquez, Raeburn and Lely, but as grids of labels, each bearing a detail, or single labels with a partial of the whole: art imitating art concealing art. But he does not deny his own instinct towards beauty and each work has satisfied the need: delicacy, balance and harmony achieved at an exquisite pitch in each work, however disembodied.

Citation

Ever after. Exhibition held 24 July - 24 August 2019, The Scottish Gallery [online], Edinburgh. Available from: https://issuu.com/scottishgallery/docs/tsg_derrick_guild_ever_after

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Start Date: Jul 24, 2019
• End Date: Aug 24, 2019
• Publication Date: Jul 12, 2019
• Deposit Date: Oct 21, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 13, 2024
• Keywords: Modern art; Installation; Contemporay art; Portraiture
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/692745
• Additional Information: ISBN 9781912900046