When we look into deep space, we are of course moving back through time. Continue onward to where numbers become too large to have meaning, and the usable language that remains is that which the paintings speak: that of abstraction, even the sublime.
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Past this, our lexicon for scale runs out and we require the digital language of numbers, as figured in Almond’s ongoing series of number paintings, here exemplified by a mirrored work that, again, inserts the individual viewer (and time) into the equation. Informed by but not directly based on deep-space photography, the Timescapes figure what lies beyond – far beyond – that which Almond has suggested is the furthest marker of distance we can really comprehend, the moon. His Timescape paintings, which stretch these concerns to their furthest spatial magnitude, visualise the outer reaches of the cosmos: remote fields of coloured stars, gleaming auroras, and measureless dark empyreans. Underpinning Almond’s sculptures, films, photographs and paintings is an exploration of time and space as metrics of being: ways of measuring, conceptualising and understanding what it means to be here on earth. beyond reach but within reason, a solo exhibition with recent paintings by Darren Almond. Galerie Max Hetzler is delighted to present.
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