2008 Exhibition | Andrew Christofides

  • Andrew Christofides, Kiera View, 2007
  • Andrew Christofides, Aphrodite, 2007
  • Andrew Christofides, Pantheon: After Kurt II, 2008
  • Andrew Christofides, Isolation, 2006
  • Andrew Christofides, Echoes, 2008
  • Andrew Christofides, Tavli, 2006
  • Andrew Christofides, Village Craft, 2006
  • Andrew Christofides, Melancholy, 2006
  • Andrew Christofides, Classical Age, 2006
  • Andrew Christofides, Escarpment, 2007
  • Andrew Christofides, Kitchen View, 2007
  • Andrew Christofides, Dispersed, 2006
  • Andrew Christofides, Riverbed, 2007
  • Andrew Christofides, Family Group, 2007
  • Andrew Christofides, Pantheon: After Kurt I, 2007
  • Andrew Christofides, Icon: For Malevich, 2008
  • Andrew Christofides, Byzantium, 2008
  • Andrew Christofides, Andrew Christofides - studio shot, 2008

2008 Exhibition
23 September - 18 October 2008

ANDREW CHRISTOFIDES: NEW WORK, 2008

Andrew Christofides’s studio based research continues Modernism’s search for purity of process and form whilst being relevant and responsive to the concerns of ‘place’ and the artist’s role in the new millennium.

The work is informed by a deep regard for the substance and monumentality of Renaissance Painting and a continuing belief in the ideals of early 20th Century European Abstraction. The work has sought to incorporate aspects of each. Personal experience and cultural background inform the work through the use of titles, colour relationships and metaphoric nuance. The contrast and apparent contradiction of rigid geometric structure and the subtely expressive surface qualities, in the work, highlights the tension evoked between the predetermined and the intuitive. This tension creates what Christofides believes is a necessary duality – the balance between the concrete and the esoteric, the struggle between the rational and the romantic.
Christofides sees this duality as a metaphor for the way life forces one to take the limitations of the everyday, the mundane, and create something heroic – something that, in the end, transcends the everyday by becoming unique and beautiful.

Whilst these paintings may appear to have no overt visual relationship with the real world they are in fact absolutely linked to it through the very process of intuition, emotional response and, both past and present, experiences and through the way Christofides chooses to rationalize and quantify these experiences. While the works are in no way descriptions of specific memories and experience they nevertheless have roots in those events and carry subtle and indelible traces of them.
In the end these paintings are seen as primarily self-contained aesthetic entities and are meant to be experienced by the viewer for their visual values.

Andrew Christofides, 2008