11 May - 02 July 2005
35 Heddon Street, London W1
Central to Daniel Sinsel’s work is an experimentation with materials. Foreign elements such as precious stones, horns and horse hair become appendages to the painted canvas. Alternatively, the canvas can be seen as making way for this eclectic range of objects. Sinsel's original approach to materials is matched by equally unusual subject matter, with knives, nuts, eggs and wood crossing back and forth as instruments, supports and motifs.
The overtly sexual has given way here to the more obliquely sensuous. References to art history and to broader creative traditions combine in Sinsel’s painting with a very personal, contemporary iconography. From works which manifest a technical virtuosity, there emanates a sense of calm serenity, tinged on occasion with melancholy and often with playfulness and wit.