Geoffrey de Groen | Public figure
Geoffrey de Groen
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25.01.2022 Do not despair, one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume, one of the thieves was damned. Samuel Beckett. In that symbiotic relationship between an artist and his viewer nothing can be taken for granted. Indeed, without that relationship there is no art. Nor is there any art if either party rests content with formulas, with second-hand experience or with seduction. Geoffrey De Groen, now in his early 70s, belongs to a generation of artists committed to an on-going interrogation of their own work. http://geoffreydegroen.com.au/against-seduction/
22.01.2022 Annandale Galleries has reopened for 2017. Currently exhibiting works from Owen Yalandja, Andrew Blake, John Bulunbulun, Kim Soooner, Djirrirra Wunungmurra, Wi...lliam Kentridge, John Mawurndjul, Geoffrey de Groen, Sam Francis, Maurice Cockrill, Marc Chagall, Samuel Namundja, Elwira Titan, Adrian McDonald, Malaluba Gumana, Vanuatu and Tony Twigg. Until April 8. See more
21.01.2022 "What I have been moving towards in the last few years are paintings with a fertile field, that are difficult to see, that are primarily non-associative entities with an uninterrupted surface that is almost purely about colour. " An excerpt from 'Towards Stillness’ Geoffrey de Groen
09.01.2022 "What I am trying to deal with is the reality of painting as I see it. One of the problems is that inherent in painting is illusionism and, although it is probably impossible to completely eradicate it, I’m really trying to confine it as much as possible and to make the painting real." From " Towards Stillness" Geoffrey de Groen
03.01.2022 "...By contrast, his first memory of colour is with the light turned on and his pillow saturated with bright fresh crimson blood. He had just had his tonsils out and had haemorrhaged. Interestingly, de Groen has always approached colour with great caution, wary of letting it loose. " - Paul McGillick
