Wish-landscapes
New paintings by Graham Fletcher
Bartley Nees Gallery
14 September - 8 October, 2005 Like fantastical topographical landforms, Graham Fletcher's new"wish-landscapes" trace the utopian and point towards a promised land yet to find its appropriate form.

Wish-landscapes
New paintings by Graham Fletcher
Bartley Nees Gallery
14 September - 8 October, 2005 Like fantastical topographical landforms, Graham Fletcher's new"wish-landscapes" trace the utopian and point towards a promised land yet to find its appropriate form.

Image: Graham Fletcher's Wish-landscape, 2005, (detail)In this exhibition, Fletcher's numerous experiments with paint and surface have manifested a diverse range of wish-landscapes from works that balloon and bubble outwards on the verge of volcanic eruption, through spiky stalactite-like tendrils that curl in accordance with the will of gravity, to pools and puddles built up from successive colourful layers of paint.
The title comes from the writings of the German utopian theorist Ernst Bloch in The Utopian Function of Art and Literature.
According to Bloch, individuals are animated by "dreams of a better life," and by utopian longings for fulfilment. Thus these wish-landscapes, conceived by the imagination of the artist, represent the search for a landscape of virtual perfection.

For more information or images please contact Alison Bartley or Julia Holderness
Bartley Nees Gallery
2 Blair Street
PO Box 9853
Wellington

Tel: 64 4 8019795

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