A KISS FROM A ROSE
Melbourne artist Bridgette McNab launches her third solo exhibition, A Kiss From A Rose in Sydney. The exhibition will be on show at Robin Gibson Gallery, Darlinghurst from 24 November until 22 December 2018.
McNab’s tightly choreographed paintings unpack the enduring dialogue between painting and cinema that resounds with the language of illusion. Influenced by French New Wave directors Jean Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer, the Melbourne artist employs a mise-en-scène approach to evoke rather than explain, enlisting ambiguous sets, truncated jump cuts and colour-blocked palettes.
In her latest series, ‘A Kiss From a Rose’, elliptical narratives unfurl, frame by frame, over eleven parts, each painting informing the next like fragments of an incomprehensible portrait. Lingering close-ups of body parts and objects become visual synecdoche’s that are as much about concealment as they are revelation.
