Barnard
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Gallery
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Art Fairs
  • Publications
  • Viewing Rooms
  • News
  • Press
  • Contact
Menu
  • Menu
  • Viewing Room
Alexia Vogel
Along the Way, 12 April - 9 May 2017

Alexia Vogel: Along the Way

Past exhibition
  • Overview
  • Installation Views
  • Press
  • Related content
Barnard Gallery_Alexia Vogel, Pool II, 2017, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm
Barnard Gallery_Alexia Vogel, Pool II, 2017, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Barnard Gallery is pleased to present Alexia Vogel’s second solo exhibition Along the Way.

 

Poetic reverie gives us the world of worlds. Poetic reverie is a cosmic reverie. It is an opening to a beautiful world, to beautiful worlds.

Gaston Bachelard

 

Bachelard’s notion of the poetic reverie – a state in which memory, imagination and wonder are interplayed and find expression in poetic writing – finds itself translated into the the vivid, hallucinatory paintings of Alexia Vogel. Concerned with the relationship between memory, image, place and self, Vogel’s work achieves a visual equivalent to Bachelard’s poetic understanding of reverie in its exploration and facilitation of the mechanisms of memory and emotional resonance. This exploration had its beginning’s in Vogel’s family archive of film photography, which Vogel has repeatedly examined and referred to in her artistic practice. Depicting a time and place before she was born, Vogel’s nostalgia for these images and the locales captured therein thus always contained an element of fantasy and projection. This sense of fantasy and of the unreal, of a confusion of the logic of time and place, and of the fragmented and irrational nature of memory and subjectivity, have found expression both in Vogel’s evocation of fantasy locales and in the physical processes and techniques which have become essential to her visual signature. Among these, the spontaneous movement of paint, the use of multiple layers and glazes, and the combination of intense, complementary hues are paramount.

 

Along the Way continues and extends this exploration of subjectivity and place through a more in depth exploration of the notion of wanderlust and journey. While previous works tended to present an imagined fixed locale, this new body of work shifts the focus to the routes taken – to movement, progression and transition. Part of this consideration of journey and passage is an engagement with and confrontation of fear and the unknown. This engagement extends Vogel’s practice further into the realm of the sublime, most strikingly evident in her Wave series, an extensive project charged with the ocean’s connotations of flux, fear and the unknown. Combined with Vogel’s introduction of Vogel’s own reference imagery from personal travels (as opposed to the exclusive use of family photography in the past), this evocation signals the artist’s evolving independence through a reflection on the routes and journeys which continuously inform both her practice and notion of self.

Related artist

  • Alexia Vogel

    Alexia Vogel

Share
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Back to exhibitions
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2022 Barnard
Site by Artlogic
Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Twitter, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Artsy, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences