Tim Maguire
Untitled 99U51, 1999
Oil on canvas
200 x 400cm
Diptych
Diptych
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Tim Maguire’s luminous diptych transforms a cluster of berries into a compelling meditation on light, colour and perception. Built through finely layered, chromatically separated paint, the forms glow with an...
Tim Maguire’s luminous diptych transforms a cluster of berries into a compelling meditation on light, colour and perception. Built through finely layered, chromatically separated paint, the forms glow with an uncanny translucence, hovering between recognition and abstraction. Familiar yet strangely removed from nature, the berries become sensuous, almost erotic, inviting contemplation of desire and distillation. Developed in the 1990s, Maguire’s distinctive process reimagines traditional botanical subjects through a contemporary painterly language.
Provenance
Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Zurich Insurance, Zurich, Switzerland (label attached verso)
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibitions
Tim Maguire, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Summer Exhibition Part I, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, 14 November - 8 December 2013