About Oliver Marsden
Oliver Marsden was born within the UK in 1973. His inventive apply revolves round notion, the probabilities of motion, and the fluidity of colour, sound, and order. Marsden explores the habits and properties of paint, creating pulsations and echoes of colour. Marsden has a proper grounding in geometry that always corresponds to the types of periodic oscillations, such because the vibrations of straightforward sounds, like that which a tuning fork can produce.
Oliver Marsden has participated in over 60 group exhibitions in locations akin to Vigo Gallery, Dubai, UAE (201/); Maddox Gallery London (2017), Kresge Artwork Museum, Michigan, USA (2010), and held solo exhibitions at venues like Vigo/Liaigre Gallery, London, UK (2020); Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico Metropolis, Mexico (2015), and Koumi Machi Kougen Museum, Koumi, Japan (2009), amongst others. He has acquired prestigious awards and recognitions, together with the Prince’s Belief Award in England in 2000 and The Arthur Anderson Prize for Finest Younger Artist, Scotland in 1995. His work is a part of necessary collections around the globe, such because the Jumex Basis, Mexico, and the Horiuchi Assortment, Japan, amongst others.
Concerning the Exhibition ‘All We Have Is Now’ by Oliver Marsden
September twelfth – November eighth, 2024
Galería Hilario Galguera Madrid is happy to current the exhibition All We Have is Now, by British artist Oliver Marsden. By means of his most emblematic sequence, the exhibition explores completely different ideas of synergy between the human situation, know-how, and nature from our perceptual capability. Reminiscence, vitality, sound, and spirituality are optimized in minimalist work that replicate a common contemplative understanding.
Increasing the cross-border attain of Marsden’s pictorial language, the exhibition can be offered concurrently at our Mexico Metropolis location, and it’ll additionally open in September.
A hypnotic sensation permeates the gallery house. Regardless of the silence and stillness, round work from completely different sequence convey a way of motion, maybe evoking their origin: an evaluation of the impression of sound on water and the materiality of sound waves led to the creation of the Harmonics sequence, which later advanced into the OM Halo and Stella sequence. Even throughout their creation, the artist stays virtually immobile whereas the work rotate on their very own to soak up oil or acrylic. The Spiral Void sequence explores the vacancy that has been studied all through historical past in philosophy and artwork. The circles within the sequence appear to show into mirrors, reflecting the doubts and ideas of every particular person.
These sequence create a phenomenon the artist calls a perceptual leap, the place the sense of depth is misplaced, and the viewer feels as if they’re contained in the portray, in a meditative area. The discount of the portray to seemingly easy parts and kinds is an try by the artist to research a common reality when halos and aureoles of saints and Buddhas will be interpreted, but additionally the displacement of vitality within the type of gentle and sound.
The Grid sequence examines actuality by way of sacred geometry with meticulously painted grids in acrylic. Impressed by the geometric buildings discovered in nature and the cosmos, these works intention to disclose the order and concord hidden within the obvious chaos of the modern world.
Equally, the Fade sequence affords an escape from the dysfunction and oversaturation of in the present day’s urbanity. Its light colours are ghosts of the best way the artist shops recollections in his thoughts. Recollections of household moments, the motion and feeling of air, sunsets, sunrises, or fog, the artist captures particular moments with gradient tones, searching for to duplicate the feeling of every expertise, turning a singular expertise into common emotions.
All We Have is Now invitations us to lose ourselves for a second within the current, capturing our gaze and fascinating us with a language that transcends cultural variations to supply an introspective house for reflection and peace. Marsden’s work comes as a much-needed breath earlier than our return to on a regular basis life.
The exhibition will open at Galería Hilario Galguera Madrid on September twelfth and stay open to the general public till November eighth, 2024.
Concerning the Galeria Hilario Galguera
Galería Hilario Galguera opened in Mexico Metropolis in 2006 as an area for the dialogue and promotion of Mexican and worldwide modern artwork. Since then, it has showcased and disseminated the work of artists identified for his or her related and sophisticated proposals on conceptual, social, political, and formal ranges, in addition to for his or her aesthetic rigor and precision.
At the moment, the Hilario Galguera Gallery operates in each Mexico Metropolis and Madrid, representing artists akin to David Bailey, Willem Boel, Maxime Brigou, James hd Brown, Peter Buggenhout, Daniel Buren, Marie Cloquet, Stijn Cole, John Copeland, Maisie Cousins, Martin Eder, Israel Gonzáles Matador, Damien Hirst, Athina Ioannou, Enrique Ježik, Jannis Kounellis, Perla Krauze, Francisco Larios, Daniel Lezama, Oliver Marsden, Gabriel O’Shea, Roosmarijn Pallandt, Issa Salliander and Bosco Sodi.