Temporary Wet Paintings [1995 - 2009]
Since 2005 Harding has been making Temporary Wet Paintings
(TWP) outside the studio. Made in the gallery or alternative
spaces, the painting's entire surface is ruptured at a far quicker
rate and allowed to fall entirely away from the support, often
making two painterly panels from one source. The painting support
is also turned, leant or laid flat away from the wall. Photographed
and then destroyed, these works are ongoing and critically challenge
the works made in the studio over a period of months.
Harding describes this series as “time based, performative
and extreme in the way that they shun the pictorial incident
evident in the studio paintings. I wanted to make something
quicker that existed for just a short time in a specific space
and also open up the work; I see these works as a painterly
equivalent of Bas Jan Ader forever falling off things or Smithson’s
earth and glue pours. Most importantly they force me to react
in ways I wouldn’t in the studio, they can be to do with
a type of dissent and celebration of painting.”
These works get to the heart of Harding’s practice, and
create an expanded context for the studio practice, negotiating
a space where the viewer can muse on the relationship of intention
and materiality.
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