Victor Man
Victor Man
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Published in conjunction with Victor Man's 2015 exhibition at Gladstone, this catalog contains a narrative by Torsten Slama.
The exhibition included several works from Man’s series, “The Chandler,” presented for the first time in the United States. Paintings in this series portray a seated, decapitated figure holding its head in its lap. The series’ title refers to the medieval term for candle-maker, one who cuts off the top of a candle in order to light it. As in much of Man’s work, “The Chandler” series alludes to historic motifs, in particular the Greek acéphale. Throughout the exhibition, multiple references co-existed, from Italian Pre-Renaissance painting to forms of primitivism. The references within these paintings bear a constant sense of repression of reality, which proliferated in Europe during the early avant-garde period at the beginning of the twentieth century. Within the stylistic codes of Man’s works, one discovers a figurative idiom aspiring to a transhistorical station of painting that is beyond contemporaneity.
ISBN 978-0-692-37274-6
