RON MARTIN
South Gallery: River of Chroma Doubled
North Gallery: Seminal Works from 1970’s and 1990’s
Opening Reception Saturday, November 1st, 2014, 2pm – 6pm
Exhibition runs until: November 26th, 2014
Christopher Cutts Gallery, 21 Morrow Avenue, Toronto, ON, 416 532 5566
Christopher Cutts Gallery is pleased to present its 16th solo Ron Martin exhibition.
In February 2013, the gallery exhibited an installation, which at the time was titled “The Most Abstracted”. The piece has since been retitled “River of Chroma”. The current incarnation is titled “River of Chroma Doubled” and like “River of Chroma”, it encompasses the entire main presentation wall of the South Gallery, charging the space with an intoxicating cacophony of texture and colour.
In 2013 Martin stated, “Well, in not having ever before seen such an installation work installed in a solo exhibition, I can only, at this point, speculate on what the significance of the work entails. Aside from the fact that this work is the most abstract I have ever produced: my guess is, it may be like some new works of art. In that it takes on the dynamics of being like something that carries inflated thought to the extreme in relation to a form that is unfamiliar. Such please me to no end.”
This 2014 edition exaggerates the intensity of Martin’s quest to create an extraordinary abstract statement that bares no resemblance to anything except its own autonomy.
In the North Gallery, we are presenting a number of seminal works from Martin’s illustrious career. From the 1970’s, a Baroque Back titled “Needful” 1974 and a Mass Plein Black titled “Change #4”, 1976. Counter pointing the all over monochrome black paintings are a selection of To Foil Oils from the mid 1990’s. The To Foil Oils, like the one colour black paintings are concerned with the materiality of the paint medium. However, instead of working with one colour, they utilize almost the entire chromatic scale of Windsor/Winton & Newton oil paints.
click to download PRESS RELEASE Ron Martin-A River of Chroma Doubled (Nov 2014)October 31st, 2014
