Emna Zghal "Against Reason"
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects
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Against Reason features Zghal's latest oil paintings with a smaller selection of prints and watercolors. Drawn from lyrical forms found in nature, she uses a wide spectrum of tones and minute strokes to create highly conceptual, abstract pieces. Turning away from contemporary conventions, she rigorously pursues her idiosyncratic themes of abandonment, lostness, and bewilderment.
Zghal is moved by the brilliant colors of a garden, the subdued beauty of a forest, the reflections within moving water. Her work brings to mind the abstractions of Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell, particularly in her use of repetitive, swirling strokes with careful but unstrained release of color.
Stimulated by the controversial "chromophobia" theory, Zghal Zghal emphasizes the "sheer truth" in color over design, in a world where color comes second to drawings and concepts. These pieces are about the sensory experience of color as yet undefined, present right now, not within the confines of pre-existing conventions of design. Although this is precisely the implication of her chosen title, Against Reason, there is an underlying theme of embracing bewilderment over certitude.
Always linked to nature, Zghal's keen interest in femininity, poetry, politics, and her Arab-African heritage help to take her into new horizons in these color abstract painting
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from December 11, 2008 to January 17, 2009
Opening Reception on 2008-12-11 from 18:00 to 20:00