Brothers of the Shadow

Brothers of the Shadow
Author: Michael Quistrebert
Publisher: Galerie Crevecoeur
Language: English, French
Pages: 120
Size: 22.8 x 31.4 cm
Weight: 948 g
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9782954136905
Availability: In stock
Price: €40.00
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Shadows and mirrors are in a sense Divine opposites, or perhaps more accurately, complimentary states of being, and complimentary means of perception. One is a projection of dark that functions by absorbing light and eliminating it. The other is a combination of every frequency of light and functions by reflecting it. Both of these states, or perhaps more accurately visual concepts, appear contradictory and antipathetic. In the works presented in this book by the two Quistrebert brothers we are drawn into an occultural maze of paradoxes, reversals and mysteries whose initial nature appears reductive to a point of deceptive simplicity. At times we are assaulted by monochromatic decay more akin to fungus, mould and the bizarre creations of stalactites and stalagmites formed by millennia of directionless sediment as epitomized by works like "Canvasless Round Painting". All familiar aspects of a traditional "painting" have been removed leaving a monolithic enigma of thick, black paint that defies not only every previous "painterly" convention, but also appears to defy the "Laws of Physics" and gravity as we may previously have understood them. We are further confounded by yet another ambiguity imposed in our Western European Judeo - Christian conditioning... is this a robust formerly molten solid, OR, a black hole in potential These "Brothers of the Shadow" smash any comfort we retain from our inherited and generally accepted binary foundations of perception as absolutely and meticulously as the CERN Particle Accelerator disintegrates and smashes matter to such infinitesimal quantum states that Science reaches out to poetry, Zen, aesthetics and the most enigmatic layers of Philosophy in its attempts to explain the inexplicable. When a shadow can literally be viewed as separate from that of which it IS the shadow we are in a realm that awaits a revolutionary breakthrough in creative exploration.