Exhibitions
Projects
Below you will find a selection of recently completed projects
Four Square Films
Four Square Fine Arts began working with Last Bus in 2008 to create a series of short interview based artist profiles. Four Square Films focus on artists in their own words and from the second film are supported by insightful footage of studio processes.
The aim of these films is to contribute to a broader understanding of contemporary art practice, whilst stimulating questions about the creative process, nurturing new dialogues between artists, students and art lovers.
We also look forward to including them as a valuable resource within our unfolding educational program. To find out more about this program click here.
About Four Square
Education
In 2009 we set out to develop a range of initiatives that went beyond the traditional exhibiting role of a commercial gallery. Supported and encouraged by the desire of many of the artists we represent, we believed it was time to share, engage and communicate in new ways with young people and adults. Four Square Films, our ongoing series of short documentaries exploring questions that drive the practice of artists working today, was a first step. However this has quickly grown to include workshops, scheduled artists talks, links with schools, and podcasts, so we've decided, the time is right to host these strands together on a sister site devoted to our educational work.
Visit our sister site: Four Square Arts Education
Contacting Four Square
Four Square Fine Arts, 5a, Station Street, Lewes BN7 2DA
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Marco Crivello
Marco Crivello is a well-established artist having exhibited at numerous exhibitions in the UK. His landscapes sit between representation and abstraction. Working mainly in oils yet finding constant inspiration through the unforeseen fusion of different media such as cellulose spray paint, salt, acrylics and dutch gold leaf he has become as Julian Bell describes him, a “masterly technician”. Natural organic processes of oxidation and patination are gently controlled to develop “an artistic synthesis, which speaks directly to us and resonates with an unmistakable spiritual ring.”
The circular format is a new development in Crivello’s work which uncouples the painting from the rectangular or square shape usually associated with landscape where there is a subconscious tendency to refer to the horizon line. The strength of the circular shape influences the development of the composition in such a way as to focus more on the activity and processes contained within the painting and raises questions about how we look at landscape.
An important aspect of Crivello’s painting is the improvised process involved. He comments “moment by moment, it is almost impossible not to be seduced by past solutions, a vast reservoir of visual memory, learnt gestures and instinctive tendencies, reinforced through habitual usage. This constitutes a definite natural kind of knowing; a synthesis vital to any discipline, but finally a descending octave. What remains alive for me as a creative question, are those moments of surrendered intention when conscious doing is replaced by an unfolding in which one is a witness to another order that escapes our understanding”.
Next Event
Please email sonia@foursquarearts.co.uk regarding work available and making an appointment.
Solo Exhibitions
Next Solo Exhibition: 18th - 23rd October 2010
Chronochromie: The Colour of Time
An offsite exhibition to be held at the Air Gallery in London
Possible Worlds
Four Square Fine Arts is delighted to announce this forthcoming exhibition “Possible Worlds” by Marco Crivello to be held in the Upper Level of the Air Gallery, London W1. It is the first solo exhibition by Crivello for five years.
Marco Crivello (born 1963) works predominantly in oils yet finds constant inspiration through the unforeseen fusion of different media such as cellulose spray paint, salt, acrylics and dutch gold leaf and has become as Julian Bell describes him, a “masterly technician”. Natural organic processes of oxidation and patination are gently controlled to develop “an artistic synthesis, which speaks directly to us and resonates with an unmistakable spiritual ring. “Crivello’s paintings are grounded in the natural world, a world where the familiar is finely balanced at the point where our perceptions may yield to abstraction. In his new body of work ‘Possible Worlds’ he continues to mine a rich seam whose aesthetic appeal owes much to an improvised way of working, where a broad palette of materials transmute to mimic natural formative processes, evoking impressions of frozen activity from a remote geological past, or of a fluid elemental universe ceaselessly becoming.
The introduction of the circular form and for the first time in this exhibition, asymmetrical shapes further enhances a play on scale, connecting micro and macro worlds, inviting a contemplation of the connections between nature and artifice, chaos and order.
Exhibition Catalogue
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Opened Ground; Loosening Gravity
Marco Crivello completed this painting in 2009. The client was familiar with the artist’s work, wished to have some dialogue about his working methods and have a painting created on the basis of the feelings that his work evoked.
The client clearly understood the fact that the improvised process was essential in Marco’s work and therefore the end result could not be predicted. Marco completed the painting over a four-month period. As the client would not have the opportunity to see the daily changes and transitions that the painting would undergo, a record of the unfolding of the work took place which would reveal decisions the artist had taken during the paintings’ development.
The recorded stages of the painting were compiled together becoming this short film Voyaging Out.