Chris Temple: Iron Works, Bridges and Google Earth”
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Paul Kuhn Gallery 724 11 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta T2R 0E4
OPENING: THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019 5:00 - 8:00 PM
Paul Kuhn Gallery is pleased to present a new series of paintings by Canadian Artist Chris Temple.Throughout his artistic career, Chris Temple is inspired by the urban environment in which he lives, travels and works. His paintings are remarkable in their clarity of colour and light, and in his unique depiction of architectural imagery. The paintings are titled “Iron Works, Bridges and Google Earth” - three series that have fascinated the artist for more than four years.
In 2014, Temple moved to the Czech Republic and became enamoured with the industrial ruins of the city of Ostrava in the eastern part of the country. The iron works date back over a hundred years and were originally developed by the Rothschild family. Taken over by Nazi Germany and then the Communists, the ruins are steeped in historical significance as they slowly rust into the landscape.
The Bridge series paintings of Chicago and New York were built in the same era with the same steel and iron technology. These bridges suffer a similar fate of decline and rot in the rust belt of USA.
The Google Earth paintings are inspired by Google Earth satellite technology. These images are an amalgam of thousands of satellite images spliced together by computer to create wonderful distorted aerial renderings of cities - in this case Manhattan.
The artist will attend the opening.