The Artist Graham Dean (Graham Dean)
English painter Graham Dean (Graham Dean) @- is a modern European artist, the focus of the art which is not abstract concepts, but actual People. And from a different perception of the project, the living sense of ownership and the response to these works. The human body as a precious vessel that holds feelings and ideas – that is the source of inspiration for Graham Dean. Painful emotions, traumatic memories and anxious expectations, from the point of view of the artist body is perceived as a Bank of memories, in which is hidden the myriad variations of the internal condition of man and which he tries to show in his works.
Graham Dean communicates important part of emotions and psychological States of his characters (beautiful models, athletes, crazy enthusiasts of slavery, twins, people with skin defects) using their bodies as means of expression. Body for the artist is a powerful tool to characterize the personality of the character @- from the inside out. More than thirty years, Dean works with images of the human body as a shell, under which hides a complex array of feelings, emotions, experiences, memories, emotional traumas. Behind this interest is the theory of emotional" брони" of Wilhelm Reich – disciple of Freud, a trip to Northern Norway, where the long absence of daylight has on people is almost hallucinogenic effect, the horrors of Hiroshima, the Olympic games, demanding incredible strength and will. Multi-faceted internal state, inherent in man, Dean strives to reflect through play of color, conducting his experiments with the texture of paper and paints. On his first show in Russia Graham Dean will present a series of works from projects" Белый noise"," Спящие" and" Пловец" continues the study of the relationship of man with his own inner world. The art project" Белый noise" are an attempt to illustrate how a continuous sound, bright lights and traffic of the city affect a person, and just being outside it, a person is able to relax and rejuvenate. The art project" Спящие" illustrate our relationship with sleep, and our dreams and insomnia. 1980-х years, Dean works primarily in watercolors and pays special attention to the interaction of paint, water and paper. Adding different dyes and pigments the artist manages to create oxidized, crystalline and luminous images.
Graham Dean" А2" 2012.jLink to original
