We are delighted to announce a new exhibition of works by Sam Lock (b. 1973, United Kingdom) entitled Tomorrow or tomorrow or tomorrow at our Brussels Gallery.
Please join us for Drinks & Canapés at our opening reception next Tuesday the 17th of March from 6:00 - 9:00 pm at Avenue Van Volxem 333, 1190 Forest, Brussels.
For his mixed media paintings, Sam Lock disassembles vintage art books from the 1930s, "The World’s Greatest Paintings," tearing off page after page. He later assembles them on a canvas to create his abstract compositions. These books, comprising masterpieces from world art galleries, are stripped of their imagery, leaving the pages blank. Lock is more interested in the yellowed, marked, and thick-textured book paper beneath, which for him conveys timelessness, overlapping past and present. Using books allows Lock to relinquish control over his artistic decisions.
"A book doesn’t entirely exist in one place – it overlaps past and present, linking otherwise separate times, places and people. I am drawn to their paper, full of yesterdays and memory, yellowed, marked and thumbed. Not in a nostalgic way, but more as a means for time travel – to tie myself to the object and its’ accumulative contexts. My work is not always authored only by me, I seek opportunities to lose control over decisions – book paper or covers already come with an absent presence; writer, publisher, binder, owner, reader – who have already left their mark, my marks follow on and add my moments in time to the palimpsest." - Sam Lock, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, Summer Exhibition 2024
More to come!