Plein Air Guitar
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Categories: Visual Art
Dates: September 18, 2021 - September 19, 2021
Run Time: 300 mins,120 mins,180 mins
Venue: See Here Now Gallery
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Categories: Visual Art
Dates: September 18, 2021 - September 19, 2021
Run Time: 300 mins,120 mins,180 mins
Venue: See Here Now Gallery
THE TOOLS REMAIN
Derek Ayres’ new watercolors have something to do with the concept of “personal archeology” and a feeling of his mortality, or at least the mortality of his own culture. Parallel to the gods of ancient Greece or Rome, the gods of his 13-year-old self walked the earth: Jimmy Page, Ace Frehley, Angus Young. And just like the ancient gods, only a few artifacts remain. Often only the tools that created the statues and the artworks that survive. The chisel and palette outlast the woodcut and watercolor. And so, the sturdy amplifiers, the solid body guitars, at this point, may outlive the music itself. These are the bygone symbols — the crumbling Parthenon, the half-buried statue, the found spear tip — that will have future generations collecting and valuing, and pondering their meaning and significance. Perhaps entirely divorced from the music, which may cease to exist in any usable form after repeated technological paradigm shifts. But these are not tributes to the gods, these are the tools of the gods themselves. The art and the gods are gone. But the tools remain. These paintings are the equivalent of finding a feather from Shakespeare’s pen, or an obscure piece of Kepler’s telescope at a construction site and thinking that at one time, people worshipped birds and pieces of polished glass were buried with royalty. The meaning is lost, but the gods live on, separated from their true meaning, and perpetuated through history with misunderstood symbols. — ROBERT FANELLI, July 2021
Locked-down, my fellow shut-ins and I were picking up the guitar and playing board games to fortify domestic life in the wake of zoom meetings and virtual classrooms. I stayed inside and starting making fake plein air watercolors, populating pastoral landscapes with my beloved vintage amps. I am painting 20 of them. Come take a look.
Reception: 9/18 4-6pm, RSVP.
Pop-Up: 9/18 1-6pm, 9/19 1-4pm.