James Hyde
Midas (Magnasco)
14 September – 19 October at 20 Albert Road, Glasgow
Performance: Saturday 19 October. Violinist Elena Inei and guitarist Mike Parr Burman will improvise a piece of music for violin and electric guitar in response to James Hyde’s painting.
Doors open 6pm. Free admission.
Exhibition open Saturday and Sunday, 12-4pm and by appointment
The centrepiece of this exhibition is James Hyde’s large scale painting Midas (Magnasco), 2018. This was made by applying acrylic and urethane dispersion, house paint, metallic and earth pigments and powdered glass to a stretched vinyl print. The print, almost wholly obscured by Hyde’s application of materials, is of a greatly enlarged photograph of a small detail of a painting by the eighteenth century Italian artist Alessandro Magnasco. Juxtaposed with Hyde’s work is a small oil painting of a praying monk, possibly a fragment of a larger work, attributable to Magnasco himself.
James Hyde’s work is an investing in, and investigation of, painting. How and where, he asks, does it take place? Of what is it constituted? For Hyde, parts and wholes, fragments and restorations are part of the poetry and tradition of painting. How these elements are expressed and performed, Hyde believes, goes a long distance to defining a painting, its programme and its maker’s attitude.
“For myself— all paths lead to painting. In some paintings those paths are more looped and in others, tighter. I wonder – to bring the world into a painting – isn’t that a process of fragmentation?”
James Hyde is an artist living and working in Brooklyn.
www.jameshyde.com
