Liverpool Street Gallery is showing a substantial body of work by Aida Tomescu – Milky Way, at stand E20, which will also be shown following the Melbourne Art Fair at the gallery in Sydney from August 11 to September 6.
The paintings are refreshing, up-lifting, and illuminating, with large scale canvases using a vibrant colour palette of rich yellows, reds and pinks, and the smaller works of intriguing line-work which looks almost like handwriting, a quality which draws us in to decipher the meaning or visual language behind them.
Tomescu is known for her technique of continuous building and erasure of paint to create a layered structure in the work. These new paintings contain the density and complexity of this style, but contain a new openness and more variety in her consideration of scale and space. They contain a movement which runs through the series of works, resting in some and building density and vibrancy in others, creating a rhythm of ebbs and flows – in both the work as a collection, as well as their creation.
Tomescu’s use of layering, line-work and colour is poetic and expressive, speaking of particular experiences with movement, mood and explosive emotion.
Liverpool Street Gallery is a must-see, and don’t miss the stock-room corrider behind the main gallery space, with stand out works by Dan Hollier, Peter Sharp, and Karl Wiebke.