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Stephen Thorpe

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Stephen Thorpe, You Must Go in Quest of Yourself, and You Will Find Yourself Again Only in the Simple and Forgotten Things, 2020

Stephen Thorpe

You Must Go in Quest of Yourself, and You Will Find Yourself Again Only in the Simple and Forgotten Things, 2020
Oil on canvas
92 x 76 cm
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Unlike Thorpe’s other corner paintings, the seam in this work is centrally aligned, which is unusual due to the artist’s preference for slightly skewed and off centered compositions that create...
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Unlike Thorpe’s other corner paintings, the seam in this work is centrally aligned, which is unusual due to the artist’s preference for slightly skewed and off centered compositions that create a sense of imbalance and imperfection. Even the pattern – which borrows from the arcade painting To Die is to go into the Collective Unconscious – appears symmetrically balanced on either side. This is the first time the artist has attempted to recreate a corner from another painting, honing in on the more intimate aspects of the room, and therefore, the mind. The work has a certain feeling of nostalgia, from the 1980s and the artist’s childhood, calling back to a particular period in time and a sense of home and belonging.
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