A new painting series that visually demonstrates the artist’s interest in corporeality and dance. An improvisational search for the body of painting, for the qualities of tension inherent in the physical form, while preserving folds and volume. Painting as the embodiment of a performative gesture, unfolding in space like a body, revealing interconnections of an invisible order. A painting image that differs from the everyday, unfolding inward, into the center of the limit, the point of maximum peace and quiet, of inner support and stability. An autonomous body, a pure gesture of painting, without focusing on the figures of the artist and the viewer.
PAINTING. THE "PLACES 5" SERIES. 2025
In the new series, Gan continues to explore the plastic possibilities of the material, but for the first time he works with it so intensively and roughly: he rubs acrylic into the surface of the canvas with the stiff bristles of a brush, removes layers of paint with sandpaper and scratches through colorful layers. The works are imprints of the author's emotional experience and act as literal metaphors for body language. Ghana's artistic techniques directly address the viewer's bodily and tactile experience and contrast their materiality with a continuous stream of digital images that only increase the confusion of the post-Internet era. The works capture the motor dynamics of the body, its internal tension and, in general, the qualities of space in the moment.
