Magda Cebokli, Light Lines
Nov 22 - Dec 20 2014, Exhibition opening event; Saturday November 22nd, 2-4pm
Light and Edge may not seem like much to work with, and yet these are the basic ingredients with which we construct our complex visual world. They are also the subject matter of over a decade of Magda Cebokli’s explorations as a painter. Working with small differences, simplified form, repetition and a restricted palette, she develops series of often-nuanced paintings addressing the function of edge, the movement between light and dark and the structure of space. In this analysis of visual experience, she whittles away at minutiae to produce series of paintings that appear minimal but whose surfaces are built up layer by meticulous layer, each painting speaking to a question raised by another. Points of ambiguity are of interest: how the hard edge becomes the soft boundary, the straight line a curved space, the square becomes lost to the circle.
Issues of abstraction in art and its relationship to abstraction in other disciplines, the development and testing of ideas over a series, how a visual text is built up: these are additional subtexts that inform the work she makes.
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Issues of abstraction in art and its relationship to abstraction in other disciplines, the development and testing of ideas over a series, how a visual text is built up: these are additional subtexts that inform the work she makes.
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Proximal #1, 2008
acrylic on linen 46 x 46 cm |
Proximal #4, 2008
acrylic on linen 46 x 46 cm |
Proximal #5, 2008
acrylic on linen 46 x 46 cm |
Light Lines #3, 2014
acrylic on linen 100 x 100 cm |
Light Lines #4, 2014
acrylic on linen 100 x 100 cm |
Curved Space #8, 2014
acrylic on hand moulded paper 30cm diameter |
Curved Space #5, 2014
acrylic on hand moulded paper 30cm diameter |
Magda Cebokli
Black/White, 2014 acrylic on canvas 31 x 31 x 12 cm |