Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal

Pierre Peeters Gallery

Ian Kingstone

STRANGELY STRANGE but ODDLY NORMAL

Strangely Strange but Oddly Normal is the title of Ian Kingstone’s forthcoming exhibition at Pierre Peeters Gallery in Parnell and represents a rich development in his recognisable, endlessly inventive style. Kingstone has an uncanny knack of converting many of his more alert followers into being his accomplices. It is almost as if, in these paintings, materialised visions and immaterial entities are possessed of some greater spirit beyond the obvious. Most of his paintings maintain in their rectangular format a curious rule of sorcery by which appearance trumps logic and imagination becomes common sense, a view the artist holds dear and believes we, the viewer, intuitively comprehend if we enjoy art. Strangely Strange but Oddly Normal indeed.

Ian Kingstone is an Auckland born artist who travelled to London in the 1960’s and 1970’s where he studied at the Camden Art Centre. After returning to New Zealand, he was taught by a number of reputable artists including Louise Henderson and Jan Nigro and attended master classes with Colin McCahon. His paradoxical, surreal, narrative paintings reflect the reality of ourselves and the everyday fears and neurosis that comprise each and every one of us. Small reveries and a sense of desperation are themes which can be sensed in much of his work.

These new confections of works are notable for their strength of vision. What is palpably obvious and removes this work from whimsy is a simple but decisively ferocious.

3-18 August 2010
Preview 5:30 pm Tuesday 3 August

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