ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR - TIM KENT

For immediate release

Tim Kent

All That is Solid Melts into Air

September 17 thru October 11, 2009
Opening Reception Thursday, September 17th, 7pm-10pm
Factory Fresh


The New York-based painter Tim Kent (born in 1975) has used mostly figurative motifs for his large-format canvases, which he weaves between abstraction and representation in order to present the viewer with a depiction of reality that is constantly redefining itself.

With All That is Solid Melts into the Air, Kent has based his latest paintings from a passage found in Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, in which the great political thinker poetically imagines a future that resonates with our current American culture:

All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into the air, all that is holy profaned, and men at last are forced to face… the real conditions of their lives and their relations with fellow men.

In reflection of this, Kent explores the darker side of contemporary experience. He explores the idea of the residue of memory, the mundane recurrence of events that seems to be the only objective assertion of existence.

More on Tim Kent can be found at www.ocularjoyfoundation.com


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