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| Richard Bolai All Rights Reserved 2004-07 |
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| All photographs Copyrighted Stuart Hahn 2007 |
| �The Creation� series of miniatures begins an ongoing project which ends with the exile of Cain. The aim is to be as abstract, as expressionistic as possible, in the sense of �The Daughters of Jerusalem� These were exhibited at my last exhibition, November 2004, along with work in which I�d attempted more deliberately than anything before, to creolise Greek Mythology, as, indeed, I�d done with Christian Mythology in the �Nativity Triptych�, 1993. |
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| My first response to Hindu art was revulsion. But in the way of these things, over time, that modified to fascination and ultimately something close to obsession - the highly stylised symbolism, the total lack of interest in human individuality (as per Western art), the obsessive preoccupation with decoration, the childlike primitivism -. there were certainly some parallels in my own work up, especially the earlier stuff. And the totally uninhibited attitude to sex! Well, how could I not try my hand at the Kama Sutra. The references to Mucha and (in the use of jewelry) Moreau, are not unconscious - they too were inspired by India - but the borders are my own. The titles of the pieces are taken from erotic Hindu poetry. |
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