Research Catalog

Title

Ian McKeever : henge paintings / Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Heather Gaugio Fine Art.

Author

McKeever, Ian, 1946-

Publication

London : Anomie Publishing, 2022.

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Additional Authors

• Moorhouse, Paul
• Wood, Jon
• Galleri Susanne Ottesen, issuing body.
• Heather Gaugio Fine Art issuing body

Description

95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm

Summary

With a career spanning more than five decades, Ian McKeever is one of Britain's most senior artists working on the international stage. This publication documents the Henge paintings - a series started in 2017 and completed over the course of five years, inspired by prehistoric standing stones in the county of Wiltshire, England, and continuing the artist's long-standing investigation into the languages and possibilities of abstract painting.0Comprising thirty paintings along with numerous works on paper, the genesis of the series was a visit by McKeever to the world-famous neolithic site in the village of Avebury in 2016, where he took black and white photographs of the large stones that form three discrete circles: two smaller ones contained within the largest. Erected some 4500 years ago, Avebury is the largest stone circle in Britain, and forms part of what English Heritage asserts to be 'a set of neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial sites that seemingly formed a vast sacred landscape.'0Art historian and curator Paul Moorhouse, in his essay commissioned for the publication, describes how McKeever 'framed each megalith in close-up, their edges visible at the extremity of the resulting images,' explaining how 'the experience of moving around Avebury and responding to the huge stones' monumental presence made an abiding impression that resonated with deep-seated preoccupations.' McKeever's resulting body of work is an earnest and considered exploration into how paint can convey universal forces and properties such as mass, gravity and time, and how colour, texture and abstraction can converse with three-dimensional space, form and materiality.

Subject

• McKeever, Ian, 1946-
• McKeever, Ian, 1946- > Interviews
• Painting, English > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Body forth: the Henge paintings / Paul Moorhouse -- Henge Paintings -- Time and time again / Ian McKeever -- Works on paper -- On sculpture and painting / Ian McKeever in conversation with Jon Wood -- Ten stones.

ISBN

• 9781910221419
• 1910221414

LCCN

99993170903

OCLC

• on1322811860
• 1322811860
• SCSB-14471386

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries