Paul Winstanley 1994-2024
This is the solo show by Paul Winstanley at Galleria Six in Milan,
curated by artist himself
for the first time in Italy
Catalogue by Prearo Editore with text by Alberto Mugnaini
May 11 - July 20 - 2024
“Paul Winstanley’s painting does not so much aim to represent something as to distil the idea of the subject represented, to bring out its innermost essence, to embody its abstract potential to define itself as an unrelated image, in its own right, its location along the picture and painting interface. And, with respect to the photograph that constitutes its origin, what this painting seeks to make visible is precisely what remains invisible in photography. This without losing its texture, its luminist and chromatic articulation, and its impalpable tactility: it is precisely through these qualities that painting reveals a new perspective and introduces us to its personal discourse, articulated on several levels. It is as if tactility impregnates our very vision, vaporising in the rustle of the gaze, as if our own gaze discovered within itself a meteorological consistency, a kind of grain.”
Alberto Mugnaini
Paul Winstanley was born in Manchester in June 1954. He studied painting at Cardiff College of Art from 1973-76 and at Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1976-78.
Schooled in the orthodoxies of abstract Modernism, Winstanley spent a decade after college establishing a new visual language, combining the tenets of minimalism with the pictorialism of photography.
His breakthrough showing of the large painting ‘Walkway’ at the Whitechapel Open in 1989 won him the first prize Unilever Award.
His 'Driven Landscapes' exhibition at the Camden Arts Center dates back to 1993.
In 1997-1998 his exhibition ‘Annexe' took place at the Tate Millbank.
In 2008 a major retrospective of his work was held at the Art Space in Auckland, New Zealand.
In 2013 his photographic project 'Art School' was published by Ridinghouse.
In 2018 he produced his new book ‘59 Paintings’, in which the artist considers the process of thinking about and making work.
Winstanley has shown regularly in Los Angeles, New York, Dublin, London, Paris and Hamburg.
He has work in the collections of Tate (London), MoMA (New York), MoCA (Los Angeles), IMMA (Dublin), The British Library, The New York City Public Library, Southampton City Art Gallery, ACGB, British Council.
He lives and works in London.
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