Cure3
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • About
  • 2020
  • BUY ARTWORKS
  • Past Exhibitions
  • Press
  • Contact
  • Donate Now
Cart
0 items £
Checkout

Added to cart

Please note

Your purchase is not confirmed until payment has been accepted and you have been contacted by Cure3.

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu
BUY ARTWORKS

2020

  • 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ivan Seal, a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ivan Seal, a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ivan Seal, a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, 2020

Ivan Seal

a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, 2020
Perspex cube, oil paint on canvas, plastic
20x20x20cm
Copyright The Artist
Sold
Enquire
%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22artist%22%3EIvan%20Seal%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_title%22%3Ea%20thing%20bells%20silence%20behind%20the%20fulfilled%20skull%3C/span%3E%2C%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3E2020%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22medium%22%3EPerspex%20cube%2C%20oil%20paint%20on%20canvas%2C%20plastic%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22dimensions%22%3E20x20x20cm%3C/div%3E

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1) Ivan Seal, a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, 2020
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2) Ivan Seal, a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, 2020
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3) Ivan Seal, a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, 2020
b. 1973, UK; lives and works in Berlin 1992-1995 Sheffield University Ivan Seal is a Berlin-based British painter who has attracted critical interest for his paintings which appear to be...
Read more
b. 1973, UK; lives and works in Berlin

1992-1995 Sheffield University


Ivan Seal is a Berlin-based British painter who has attracted critical interest for his paintings which appear to be still lives but are in fact painted from his imagination. His practice rejects the traditional approach to the genre which conventionally depicts a moment in time, opting instead for an approximation of memory almost sculpted in thick impasto paint.

For Cure3, a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, may be small in scale but both title and subject are psychologically charged. Seal references René Magritte´s ‘Ceci est un Morceau de Fromage’ that depicts a small framed painting of a slice of cheese set on a stand at an angle within a glass dome that would normally contain cheese. In a post-COVID world, one cannot help but think that the morsel of face conserved in the cube is the part of us that is now hidden from view: generalised, silenced, protected and preserved.

Ivan Seal says that he “selects from his own memories to create portals into spaces inhabited only by painted objects. Scrutinised mental snapshots inform sets of features and narrative which are used as material to sculpt objects and architecture which inhabit ambiently illuminated non-spaces...”


www.carlfreedman.com
www.monicadecardenas.com

Portrait courtesy the Artist

Close full details
Share
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2021 Cure3
Site by Artlogic

The Cure Parkinson’s Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales (1111816) and Scotland (SCO44368) and a company limited by guarantee – company number 55399740.

 

Cookie Policy    |    Privacy Policy

Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Twitter, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.