Timothy Brooke 2020 Exhibition​

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One Off is pleased to present​


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'Almost vanishing Africa'
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Recent oil paintings by

Timothy Brooke

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Private View:
Saturday, 29 February - 12 noon to 5pm
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Exhibition run: 29 February - 29 March 2020
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About the exhibition

Abundance, and surely surfeit, makes the extraordinary ordinary: the wheel; electricity; The Theory of Evolution: all platitudes today. Impressionist art too. Then, in a moment, we are shaken from our dullness into a re-discovery of the genius of the commonplace. Timothy Brooke is such a moment.

Look at this exhibition: African landscapes, the Big Five; the little five hundred; whatever. But look, look again; and there it is, that old-school triumph of painterly accomplishment; not light and shadow; not perspective but: movement.

Impressionist art, at worst, is colourful. When done well it's inspiration is in it's narration and that narrative is provided by a set of visual cues that give the impression that this moment has a before and an after into which, in our minds, through a process of interpolation and extrapolation, can be spliced the frozen-frame, animating it into vivid narrative. Like those favourite yarns of yore, we know what comes before and we know what's coming next and the rest is truly history. If we need suspend no disbelief, this process is automatic. Therein lies the trick.

For those interested in getting into the weeds, do get up close; you'll be astonished at the randomness or absence of the detail; then step back and see the precision in it's effect. I defy you to explain how it works.

Returning to those landscapes, they too have movement; only the movement is time and the canvas eternity. And that's an inspirational commonplace in a uniquely African narrative.

Dominic Martin, One Off

Preview of Works

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