Re: Found – Rupert Travis
In Re: Found, Rupert Travis reimagines observations and moments captured on camera during his travels, transforming them into painted dreamscapes. These contemplative artworks offer impressions of understated and often unseen moments in life that come into focus while abroad.
Painted during a recent year in Montpellier, France, these works are informed by the context of both living in a different place and being separated from home. Introspectively, the artist combs through photos, looking for what intrigues and what is reinterpreted.
The intricate clockwork of the world that often gets overlooked by the noise of business.
—Rupert Travis
Crabs tied in a basket. A lone figure pushing a bike on the beach. Chairs left haphazardly. This sense of quiet observation is a thread that pulls through the images. In paint the artist gives depth and presence to these found moments.
There is a cohesive emotive quality between the subject and the manner in which it’s described. Dreamlike with mutable textures and muddied tones, these paintings shift at varying distances, drawing the viewer in. By transforming hazy memories, Travis imparts new definitions and fresh imprints to these scenes.
Read more about this exhibition in our interview with Rupert Travis here.
