David Mann’s guiding impulses lead him to contrasts between the physical and metaphysical. The working process of most painters is governed by a refined instinct for balancing conceptual, formal and material variables in the service of an elusive yet very real sense of truth. This compelling duality has long been and continues to be a defining characteristic of Mann’s work. The summary effect is paradoxical: paintings that are both lucid and enigmatic.
With their luminous depths and mystery of means they sometimes provoke the kind of surprising disorientation one feels when stumbling upon a dramatic scene of natural beauty. His best paintings provide a visual experience that is richly visual and psychologically engaging. The picture must be for him, as for anyone experiencing it later, a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.ĭavid Mann explores the evocative properties of color and light as he works in the gap between abstraction and representation. Pictures must be miraculous the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is the faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed.
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