Confronting life
The death of a friend was the starting point for the works in Grant Takle’s exhibition at Manawa Gallery. The collection of sheet metal relief paintings is called “Confrontation Set.” “The viewer is confronted, just as I was confronted, by the imagery. But life is more important to me than death,” he says. Grant Takle is from Christchurch and graduated in painting from the Fine Arts Department at
the University of Canterbury in 1984. This is his first one man show. He chose to work in tin because of its softness and malleability. “I like things that are painterly and fluid, that are immediate and expressive. The tin is dented, chopped and bent before being finished with brushed-on lacquer.’’ He uses the symbol of a cross as an abstraction of the human figure and a reference to transition and change. Grant Takle’s exhibition will end on October 2.
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