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Frank Bowling OBE RA: Recent Small Works Private View card

Announcement relating to an exhibition, 2012
Year published: 2012
Unpaginated.

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Private View card for Frank Bowling OBE RA: Recent Small Works, exhibition at Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, London. The exhibition took place 6 July - 31 August 2012 and the Private View was Thursday 5 July 6:30 - 8:30pm. The card contained venue details, opening times etc. One side of the card featured a colour reproduction of Yo Eyton, from Frank A to Frank B (2012) 27.5 x 22 in

From the exhibition press release:

Small Paintings: Cosmic Glimpses

Frank Bowling’s paintings offer a vision of a universe of his own imaging. They are images of an energetic chaos in which the mineral phenomena of fire and water, earth and air are caught in the very process of generation; out of this elemental and undifferentiated energy emerge the ever-changing morphologies of flame and light-fall, waterfall and cloud, rainbow, rain and the mists of aerial weathers. In this cosmos of atmospheric or aqueous colour-light may be discerned, with the shock of familiarity, the vegetable forms of tree, bush, leaf and flower; the rough surfaces of earth; the evanescent shimmer, shadow and flash of sunlit mudflat, forest clearing, flowing river; the tactility of animal scale and skin…

Mel Gooding, 2012

Related people

»  (Sir) Frank Bowling OBE, RA

Born, 1935 - 1937 (probably 1936) in British Guiana (now Guyana) Caribbean/S. America

Related exhibitions

Related venues

»  Eleven Spitalfields Gallery

London, United Kingdom