Loaded, new work Daniel Clarke

LOADED
My work of the last three years situates itself in a landscape that seeks to confront my unconscious with that of contemporary political et sociological parameters. The work’s ambition is to confront my own history with that with which surrounds me and nourishes me. I aspire, through the paint to construct a Jungian language that aims to give a voice to the fabric of my experience. The use of stencils is essentially to tap into forms as if they were architectural ruins or sculptural fragments alluding to a place. I see the work as that of a cartographer, mapping, listing but with the freedom of my hand to distort, oppose and articulate the landscape, not in a photographic way but with a spiritual, instinctive and cosmological ambition.

L'ambition ici est de confronter ma propre histoire avec celle qui m'entoure et me nourrit. A travers la peinture, je cherche à construire une langue jungienne qui donne une voix au tissu de mon expérience. L'utilisation de stencils vise essentiellement à recourir aux formes architecturales et aux fragments sculpturaux faisant allusion à un endroit sans illustrer ou se trahir. Je vois ce travail comme celui d'un cartographe, comme la construction de cartes et de nomenclatures mais en laissant à ma main toute liberté de déformer, opposer et articuler le paysage, pas de manière photographique mais avec une ambition spirituelle, instinctive et cosmologique.
Daniel Clarke, mars 2019