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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Chris Gollon, Last Radio Playing (VIII)

Chris Gollon

Last Radio Playing (VIII)
acrylic on canvas, 2015
22 x 30 in
55.9 x 76.2 cm
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'In early 2015, listening to Bob Dylan’s song Shooting Star, and the lyric “last radio playing”, Gollon decided to suppress subject matter entirely, in order to focus wholly on colour....
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"In early 2015, listening to Bob Dylan’s song Shooting Star, and the lyric “last radio playing”, Gollon decided to suppress subject matter entirely, in order to focus wholly on colour. Retaining his boyhood interest in and aptitude for maths, he was fascinated by the relationship between music, mathematics and colour. He re-read Johannes Itten’s classic tome The Art of Colour, and set about painting 10 images of a last radio playing, each using different combinations of colour contrasts, for example simultaneous, saturation, complimentary etc.. Yet, as author and Thurston Moore biographer Nick Soulsby notes, despite this mathematical approach, Gollon’s ability to infuse a still life with a human essence nonetheless shines through.” David Tregunna, curator and editor, excerpt from the foreword to the 2019 museum Chris Gollon retrospective catalogue Beyond the Horizon.

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IAP Fine Art, Monmouth

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IAP Fine Art, Monmouth

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This series of paintings 'Last Radio Playing' is described in 'CHRIS GOLLON: Beyond the Horizon', the museum catalogue of the Gollon retrospective at the Huddersfield Art Gallery (ISBN 978-0-9530584-3-3), published in 2019 by IAP Fine Art and Kirklees Council/Huddersfield Art Gallery. Edited by David Tregunna (Curator). 
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This series of paintings 'Last Radio Playing' is described in 'CHRIS GOLLON: Beyond the Horizon', the museum catalogue of the Gollon retrospective at the Huddersfield Art Gallery (ISBN 978-0-9530584-3-3), published in 2019 by IAP Fine Art and Kirklees Council/Huddersfield Art Gallery. Edited by David Tregunna (Curator).
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