28 November - 20 December, 2023
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Holdings 2023, a group exhibition of selected works celebrating the exhibiting artists of 2023. We welcome you to our gallery stockroom for viewing.
Exhibiting Artists:
Andrew Browne
Angela Brennan
Dadang Christanto
David Fenoglio
Ian Friend
Jacinta Giles
Jonathan Kopinski
Joseph Daws
Kellie O’Dempsey
Miles Hall
Natalie Lavelle
Simon Degroot
25 July - 12 August, 2023
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present our first exhibition with newly represented artist David Fenoglio. Squaring the Circle will be on display between 25 July - 12 August 2023.
David Fenoglio is a Brisbane/Meanjin based artist and 2011 graduate of Queensland College of Art. Fenoglio has exhibited nationally and internationally, having spent a year in Europe following graduation. His travels abroad included researching works in Italian museums, studying painting at the Grand Central Atelier in New York, and drawing studies while working on farms. Fenoglio has now returned to his home town to focus on pursuing a representational art practice through oil painting and drawing.
“The time spent looking and contemplating through painting is a meditative experience. I hope for this experience to be held in the paintings and offered to the viewer to experience some calm and contemplation." - David Fenoglio
Fenoglio's works are inspired by the natural world and art history, but situated in a contemporary context. Fenoglio is known for his restrained and contemplative still life compositions, based in the historical and technical study of painting. His approach references natural realism—depicting organic and mineral surfaces in their natural state. But his contemporary practice pushes the objects beyond their materiality with its hyperrealistic rendering. The uncanny ability to make simple spaces and objects, not only look, but feel natural is achieved through Fenoglio's technical exploration and extensive study of oil painting.
Exhibiting artist David Fenoglio joined Alain Guillemain in the space to explore the theme of ‘The meditative in art' in Squaring the Circle (25 July - 12 August 2023).
The act of human selection, where stones, wood or paper are chosen for their symbolic significance, consciously arranged on a table for artistic contemplation, holds its origins in the Dutch and Flemish tradition of stilleven.
