BRENT WADDEN – BANKS / BARS
2019-05-13Canadian artist Brent Wadden presentw a new series of paintings in which he further interrogates his relationship to time. Brent Wadden has always been slightly outside the mainstream. After studying painting and drawing at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in an age when most spent their time in front of a computer screen, he took an interest in weaving. He learned the trade from Travis Joseph Meinolf, an artist from San Francisco who was working in Berlin at the time. The connection with the Bauhaus school seems obvious, although Wadden’s curiosity was originally sparked by the quilt makers of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, well before he deepened his knowledge of the movement. The interest of his work lies essentially in the sectorisation
of different media, as he says himself: “to me, the Bauhaus movement seemed more based on notions of industrial design, while I was more focused on what it meant to weave. I actually continued to paint murals, or to mix both types of work in my first exhibitions, but I found it disturbing, so started to think about transforming weaving into what could be considered a painting.”
Opposite – Untitled, 2019
Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2019
Almine Rech
20 rue de l’Abbaye
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
