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Thursday, 4 November 2021

Artlyst - Bosco Sodi: In The Beginning Of Wisdom

My latest review for Artlyst is of Bosco Sodi: Totality at König London:

'Sodi has used the touch, tangibility and materiality of earth to evoke and contemplate the vast expanses of immaterial space. He uses the dust of the earth to recreate the dust that forms planets. He uses the particular to evoke the universal. He looks down for his materials and in his making, so we might look up in awe at the night sky and the galaxies.

We gather in contemplative space to view both the details of clay colours and cracks and the expanse of his installation and canvases. At one and the same time, his surfaces form planetary landscapes viewed from above – mountains, valleys, rivers – with the whites and golds of his paints evoking light on the cracks and crevices of these ravines and ranges while simultaneously also evoking celestial star systems.' 

An earlier review of a Sodi exhibition for Artlyst can be found at https://www.artlyst.com/features/bosco-sodi-moment-genesis-revd-jonathan-evens/. 

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The Beatles - Across the Universe.
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Sunday, 3 February 2019

Artlyst: Bosco Sodi - A Moment Of Genesis

In my latest feature article for Artlyst I explore Bosco Sodi's art in relation to the nature of chance and accident:

'In a secular context, chance is a series of entirely random events, while in a religious context such events are understood as, in some way, reflecting the influence or direction of the divine. Are such events merely coincidences or Godincidences?

Bosco Sodi’s work raises these questions in a very particular form that, as Dr Aaron Rosen explores in his catalogue essay, touches on the nature of creation itself: ‘As much as (Sodi) is fascinated by the factors which contribute to change, his deeper questions revolve around the very nature and necessity of creation… To apprehend the significance of this act, Sodi is no longer content to delve into the earth’s prehistory. His most recent works seek to dig beneath time, to the moment of Genesis itself.’ ...

Sodi, as creator, consciously creates conditions – the layering of pigments and the drying of the work – in which chance will complete the work he has begun. His practice, therefore, has synergies with concepts of God that posit an openness to the act of creation and a sense that all possibilities are contained, but not necessarily actualised, within that creative act or process or person. The artist, as sub-creator, creates a world where the possibility of change is built in, which is alive with possibility, where the possibilities are held within the artist’s creation.'
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James Taylor - Home By Another Way.
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