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Original concept productions; one's ideas transmitted - Scott Anderson.
In April 2013 controversial outspoken award winning Scottish born Australian artist Scott Anderson presented a collection of artworks titled 'Nobody's perfect - well almost nobody'. An exotic blend of paintings with a disturbing colourful primal order delivering much food for thought to the idea of existence and perfection; the knowledge how many things must be right for things to be perfect.
Straight into it with Fish 4 - Then there where four, a large simple piece that is peaceful and yet disturbing when that knowledge that five become four is revealed. From there into the powerful Fish panels that have been set as envisioned by the artist. The introduction is enough to take a seat at the table that is positioned in an almost 3D world with all 4 works adjacent to each other, creating a juxtaposed corner of our world.
FISH 4
FISH4 HANGING IN EXHIBITION.
FISH HANGING IN EXHIBITION.
FISH 5.
Abstract in nature but lineal in thought Colour 4 - Summer 2003 and I'm Falling flank Generation-X - it's started, an oil on board family portrait of the 21st Century family. Within the confines of the straight black line, colour is separated and has its own defined reason the artist explains, "In that summer of 2003 I went out working for myself as a contractor - I often felt like a fish out of water. Under the relentless Australian sun which seems to radiate over Perth I see the land drying out and that seems to be the road we are travelling down."
SUMMER 2003
Award winning Generation-X - it's started 2003 oil on board is a modern family portrait that features the artists own son Trent taking front stage. A new day brings a dawn that lights up the uncertainty revealed in the night sky, the artist reveals that this is also homage to Munch's Le Howl or Scream pop culture classic painting, "I often knock up a Le Howl while I'm working on a piece, it helps me get my eye in." No sooner has the perfect family taken center stage and it turns to Hell in I'm Falling. Large sublime moments project a sense of transcendence with an apocalyptic realism as our victim falls to their fate. "I see someone getting pushed" says art follower Michelle Margarita Spencer.
GENERATION X - IT'S STARTED.
I'M FALLING.
Colour with its hint of child-like vigor could be excused for being lost next to a classic 20th century inspired Pollock, because it seems clumsy, an Australian characteristic associated more with cringe worthy television. Quirky and deftly Jackson Pollock inspired The Galah is the artist Scott Anderson's short walk down this understanding of an artist driven to the edge, and the result, that was building up all the time; until the sunset on that period in history. Together the paintings seem to be less than perfect; but the understanding of what the artist is saying is again repeated in the separate nature of the primary colour's and then the chaos suggested by Jackson Pollock in his drip technique depiction of the cosmos. "Isn't it perfect we can have simple and chaos in our life", says the artist.
COLOUR - LUKE AND JASON HANGING ARTWORK.
THE GALAH.
"Freud would have some comments to add when observing art, with always some sexual-mother-Eros theme," says the artist when explaining The Moment as a pro-creational activity. The Moment hangs next to the omnipresent Yarbers TV; it could be mistaken for an analogue TV with a no-signal transmission if one stares into it long enough. Not so strange is the concept that we are born 9 months before we enter the world or the idea of the TV being a third parent. "Professor Robert Yarber developed new colours from what he saw, and what we have created in our world and his thinking is what inspires me," says the artist - giving some small insight. "For a man the idea of being a father is important, just as it is I'm sure for a woman the same knowledge and experience." He adds.
THE MOMENT.
YARBERS TV.
The Balance penetrates with its statement that we find within the harmonious arrangement of the moral quality of our actions and motives a balance in spirit or conscience. "It took a long time to get this place and be able to deliver a simple picture so perfect the small piece of white oil paint on the bottom edge was added; it was too perfect."
THE BALANCE.
Awesome is what comes to mind when you can stand in front of large artworks in high ceilinged rooms that can absorb momentous thoughts. "I was born in a unique time and was at a certain age when the world turned over a page in time where questions like what has been the biggest invention at the turn of this millennium where asked?" Capaocity is post atomic reflections from an emerging child on the side of democracy in a cold-war against communism. Born into a time to be known as the Summer of Love "I have walked aboard Nuclear War Machines capable of such unimaginable destruction created by man, not by God or some Divine Order; this North American Saber Jet was conceived under the forces of the military war machine; no sooner have we built our machine we have modified our initial design and improved upon our fire-power; but do we control this power and the big bomb the fighter carries?" The artist takes a breath as he further explains, "This Jet is the first commercially built fighter to break the sound barrier. Its technology was break through material and it was used to develop modern airliners that we board upon every day. Imagine for a moment that Davinciinci had developed gliders and flight; that it would have been through warfare – his first thoughts, 500 years before the Wright brothers and Curtis went on to develop powered flight."
CAPAOCITY.
"Something we forget quickly is history and the important role moments have. Specifically the turning points in warfare and in the twentieth century air supremacy stood out several times. The Saber was a pivotal player in the forgotten Korean War that raged on in the fifties from the decades preceding."
CAPAOCITY.
"Back to Earth with the $10 Million dollar painting On the way home, that comical edge comes to the fore with this road-trip painting that delivers an idea that one day crows will develop into the first birds that will stop flying, gliding or soaring; those Crows out in the bush lands that survive off road-kill have been slowly changing."
ON THE WAY HOME.
From the ridiculous back to the sublime and how fitting the end should be with a perfect example of our worst human and most connected emotion. That knot you get in your stomach - that is your anxiety, My Anxiety with its distinctive and funky faux fur frame ends this artistic endeavor; and has the artist given something in a collective form that gives a representation of perfection?
MY ANXIETY.
To the trained and un-trained alike the artist must transcend the expanse of knowledge - that this person or that person must possess some knowledge but more importantly that this or that person can accept some definition we all collectively accept and don't argue with. Nobody's perfect - well almost nobody, does give much for the avid viewer to ponder over but is it too clever. What is the individual taking away when they stand in front of an image; what is it that is burnt in to the memory? There is a broad overview of the image and there's how it made us feel; our emotions support our ideas that become who we are.
We can find perfection in the oceans, in our vision for the perfect family life we strive for, in the simple and chaotic worlds that are and we create; how perfect when we create an individual but also a machine to watch over it. The depths of space and everything else exist with or without us; but our presence in being here, if there is someone else out there - would they see perfection? We have come to acknowledge a balance is more than black and white, right and wrong; our relentless pursuit for peace can only be after war. Change seems inevitable; nothing stays the same - perfection is bounded by time and the constraints mentioned for existence; could it be more perfect!
MY ANXIETY.
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