{"id":33994,"date":"2019-07-02T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=33994"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:05:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:05:46","slug":"delphine-hennelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/delphine-hennelly\/","title":{"rendered":"delphine hennelly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ah, the past and present beautifully brought together in these colorful, narrative, large-scale oil paintings are the work of Vancouver-born, New York based artist Delphine Hennelly<\/a>. Earlier this year she did an interview with Two Coats of Paint<\/em><\/a>, and talked about this body of work:<\/p>\n

“For these paintings, I was looking at a lot of work from the French pre-revolution period. With the ubiquitous image of couple and dog I have been eager to pin down a certain feeling of unrest and sociopolitical anxiety. The costume would be a nod to the notion or warning, whichever way you want to look at it, \u201cHistory here repeating itself\u201d in a domestic scene in its most benign form.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the stories – I have questions! Who are those people and, um, is that blue\/yellow sheep okay?<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not trying to tell a story about my life, and there\u2019s no real person that this represents in my mind. But then they also become weirdly real because it does enter my thinking. It\u2019s unavoidable. I feel you can\u2019t get away from yourself or your histories. This might sound silly, but I saw all of a sudden the guy in\u00a0Country Matters\u00a0kind of looks like my son Leo. He has the look of a grown-up toddler. In a way,\u00a0this was my son growing bigger than me, and that would be me, and I\u2019m mourning the loss of his childhood. Also in the same painting, I didn\u2019t realize the sheep appeared dead until the painting was up on the wall, out of the studio and everyone was talking about it being dead. Meanwhile, the dog in the other paintings is not the same as the sheep. It\u2019s about fidelity, partnership, companionship. The sheep is something else, and I am OK\u00a0with it appearing as though it\u2019s on its way out, so to speak. I think\u00a0Country Matters\u00a0is ultimately about loss of innocence. There is a bit of a sadness in that painting. The sheep is the harbinger of that feeling. More importantly, the fact that the sheep\u2019s \u201cdeath\u201d is ambiguous, lends a kind of farcical bend to the narrative. And that would be where my intentionality would lie.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

{Thanks to Rachel Faucett of ‘Handmade Charlotte’,<\/a> for pointing me to Delphine’s work}<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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