The Late 1990's Gallery / PAINtings

note: "The Late Nineties Gallery" have been separated into two wings of which this is "The PAINing Gallery". To return to the "Lobby of Late Nineties Gallery Texts" click here. To view the "dRAWings in the Late Nineties Gallery click here.

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Sisyphus' Descendants (Triptych) oil on canvas			1993-96
Sisysphus' Descendants Triptych Please note: this work measure more than 5 metres (21 ft.) tall. To render it into a format which can be seen here, is like rendering a full size car down to a miniature toy car scale. I feel that the result of this scale makes this work seem more like a cartoon and it therefore looses much of its dynamic quality. The best way to view this work when it's this small, is to view an installation image (as seen to the right), which is still unsatisfactory to me as the artist. There are numerous details and installation images within the "hEaVEN n eARTh" catalogue: which can be accessed by the link to the far right. C'est lavie - ars est celare artem. G. Pas		view the catalogue documentation of this work with details and texts by clicking on the above image
In an attempt to try and bring a better perspective to this rather large work, I have included two modest Flash Movies which emulate a pan over the surface of these paintings. Please remember that even these images have been reduced to fit a web format and much of the fine detail is absent. To view these Flash Movies please click on the text links below. large Flash Movie 303 kb 300 X 500 pixels small Flash Movie 63 kb 150 X 350 pixels
life sometimes feels like a Sisyphean toil we roll the rock up the mountain to watch it roll down the other side only to be forced to roll it back up again ad-infinitum

Study after Sisyphus' Descendants (Diptych) watercolour on paper 1996-97 <------- to view individual panels click on the panels view the entire diptych -------> detail panel a detail panel a detail panel a   in the toil of our labour do we stop to take in the view when we roll that rock to the summit or are we lost in the minutia of our consternation

Phaethon's Faux PaS (Triptych) oil on canvas		1996-98
view a comprehensive catalogue documentation of this work with details and texts by clicking on the above image	Phaethon's Faux PaS
a person should learn to be humbled when their own vanity comes up and bites them in the ass

For the Sake of my Art and my Loved Ones, I will Gladly Endure to the End!		1997
"This work was undoubtedly created during one of the darkest periods of my Life! Out of money, out of luck and what seemed like, out of hope. I couldn't find the motivation to keep on going on and looked to Socrates solution, to be a good one: pass the mug of hemlock. Then remembering that my life was not just my own and belonged also to those I loved and loved me back - I'd keep up the good fight. Art is indeed a catharsis, as I could spend my time making this work, which I believe together with the title says everything I need to say about it for itself." G.Pas
then there's those dark days when all seems to be for not and you feel lost in the abyss

The Saints - a series of 12 oil paintings		1998-99
to view the complete catalogue documentation of these works and see all 12 of the Saints series with numerous details and texts click on the above image	Two of the oil paintings from the series of twelve Saint paintings. Left: Saint with a Cervical Traction Set subtitle: Lighten Up Right: Saint with Hand Prosthesis 1998 subtitle: Nuada of the Silver Hand * please view all the Saints by clicking the image on the far left. G.P.*
that darkest hour is the one before the break of daylight when that light comes streaming in the darkness fades away we can speak of truth if we have experienced it and it is in knowing both the light and the dark, pain or joy, wealth or poverty, sickness or health, that we become fully and totally humans

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