07 June - 29 July 2006
35 Heddon Street, London W1
The focus in David Korty's works has shifted towards streets bustling with pedestrians, cyclists and car drivers; thronging public squares; and visitors to a museum. Earlier paintings evoked the atmosphere of the urban landscape through architecture, space and intimations of climate. Korty now conjures up the excitement of the crowded metropolis and the hurly burly of city life.
The works evoke sensory encounters with our surroundings. Korty explores the effect of light and colour on glass, water and other materials. The works' drama resides in this interplay rather than in the scene itself. Korty has also introduced stronger geometric elements and a more distilled palette, combining oil and wax pencil to a denser, more forceful effect. The overall impression is bolder and the aesthetic more stylized, as Korty taps out his own pictorial Morse code.