7. 5/06/13
'The Flowering of Art Nouveau'
A talk by the artist Susan Finlay
Métropolitain
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Susan Finlay always paints in acrylic on shop-bought, pre-stretched
canvases, while her more recent ceramic works were built by hand using cheap
school clay. Both are intended to highlight the use of ‘poorer’ and hence ‘stagier’
materials, as well as the repetition of certain art nouveau motifs which
reoccur across both the two and three-dimensional elements of her practice. Her
work is very much concerned with the feminine (what Adolf Loos would term
erotic) aspects of certain early modernisms, and in particular those which may
have previously been dismissed as minor due to their engagement with graphic
and/or sculptural elaboration, capriciousness and play. Simultaneously, the
work acknowledges the construction of this, so-called, decadence, and in so
doing consciously prevent the viewer from fully indulging in the worlds that it
alludes to . . .
This talk centres on Susan Finlay's work from the previous three year
years and its relationship to art nouveau.
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