Press Release  

Julian Broadhurst

'This Elemental Artist'  

New & recent Work

October 18 - 21

Private View Tuesday October 17th, 7-9

Please be my honored guest 

'To Question ones place in the World...'.  

 My Works are evolutionary spaces where complexities of line and form resolve themselves toward a closure; Ideally to realise and Ikonise the distant dream of Elegance. This Geometric - 'Op' Art Procedure I call Elementalism. The result is a style not unlike Architectural drawing, in for the most part, Stark black and white.          

Mine is an Art of Elements, a foundational investigation, into the Form and Conventions of, the representation of Abstracted Geometric Ideas. It is an Art of sharp concepts, of 'Music-like' variation techniques, with highlighted themes in shape, rather than sound. Composition is a balance of intelligence and chance as in a game, the rules for which I establish as I move. This can give rise to families of similar Works, generated though a set of specified techniques, an established game plan, for which the musical analogy of composition holds well. Here the musical notion of Polytonality, for example, translates to 'Polyperspectivity'. multiple perspectives seen at once. The end of my Art is is to discover in all this, the possibilities and extent of Formal Elegance, and in that to find Closure, the aesthetic notion of singular completion. Recently my Art has moved to a new domain dealing with Elements in Solid black shape.  

Text © julian Broadhurst september 2OOO.