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Song Chain: James Cousins

Past exhibition
8 July - 1 August 2020
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Overview
Cousins, Untitled, 2020
Cousins, Untitled, 2020
In Song Chain we see a departure from the complex layering and botanical references of works presented in Necessary Distraction at the Auckland Art Gallery (2015) and Restless Idiom at Te Uru (2015). As if in a loosened up rewinding and concentration of process, the artist stays with his most rhythmic set of gestures. Cousins’ characteristic rhythmic bands, a key element in the particular kind of pictorial space he is known for, are given space here to perform in their own right. Loosely figural elements oscillate in parallel with the verticality of the body. Colour evokes identification with soot and spore, of cloud captured in a liquid rhythmic wave. Airborne particles are caught and absorbed as colour then re made by the particulate effect of the spray gun in a lapsed agglomeration of run-offs in a post-industrial chemical version of Renaissance-like Sfumato (smoky line).
Works
  • James Cousins, Untitled, 2020
    James Cousins, Untitled, 2020
  • James Cousins, Untitled, 2020
    James Cousins, Untitled, 2020
Installation Views
  • Cousins 2020 Song Chain Installation 7 Sam Hartnett Web
  • Cousins 2020 Song Chain Installation 2 Sam Hartnett Web
  • Cousins 2020 Song Chain Installation 9 Sam Hartnett Web
  • Cousins 2020 Song Chain Installation 5 Sam Hartnett Web
  • Cousins 2020 Song Chain Installation 1 Sam Hartnett Web
  • Cousins 2020 Song Chain Installation 8 Sam Hartnett Web
  • Cousins 2020 Song Chain Installation 4 Sam Hartnett Web
  • Cousins 2020 Song Chain Installation 11 Sam Hartnett Web
  • Cousins 2020 Untitled Acrylic On Canvas 1900 X 1700Mm Acou129 20 Detail 3 Web
  • Cousins 2020 Untitled Acrylic On Canvas 1900 X 1700Mm Acou128 20 Install Web
  • Cousins 2020 Untitled Acrylic On Canvas 1900 X 1700Mm Acou131 20 Install Web
  • Cousins 2020 Untitled Acrylic On Canvas 1900 X 1700Mm Acou129 20 Install Web
  • Cousins 2020 Untitled Acrylic On Canvas 1050 X 950Mm Acou133 20 Detail Web
  • Cousins 2020 Untitled Acrylic On Canvas 550 X 400Mm Acou138 20 Detail Web
News
  • James Cousins' Song Chain Reviewed

    James Cousins' Song Chain Reviewed

    July 21, 2020
    James Cousins' Song Chain has been reviewed by Arts writer John Hurrell for Eye Contact. 'This is a refreshing show loaded with paradox and sly...
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