Stephen Bush: Gelderland.

Stephen Bush: Gelderland.

Liza Statton, Ashley Crawford, Laura Heon • SITE Santa Fe

ISBN-10: 0976449250 · ISBN-13: 978‑0976449256 · 2007

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Dimensions: 9.2 in × 7.5 in × 0.6 in; 20.8 Oz

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The Australian painter Stephen Bush may be best known for having made 27 copies of his The Lure of Paris, a black-and-white work in which Babar the elephant king, cast as colonial explorer, studies the view from a craggy seaside cliff. This survey of Bush's work since 2000, with a selection of earlier pieces, tracks a shift from that beautifully executed but cynical take on history painting towards a more surrealistic, Leipzig-esque style in vibrant, clashing colors. Hermetic, introverted figures and man-made structures--a beekeeper at his nests--are paired with dramatic scenery in an apocalyptic palette of hot pink, coral, lavender and kelly green. As Artforum has noted, Bush turns the landscape genre "inside out. Rather than a mind calmed by the natural environment, these paintings record the external manifestation of psychological trauma."

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