The Visible at the Service of the Invisible
By: Brad Faine
Published: 2013
Image Size: 640 mm X 750 mm
Paper Size: 820 mm X 940 mm
Edition Size: 50
£850.00
”My works inspire and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.” Odelon Redon.
Brad Faine,
‘I have used the formal elements of the jig-saw puzzle as the basis of this print, as I have for some time puzzled as to why, once we could read, we continued to use one visual image to represent something else. I can understand the use of the symbolism of the medieval church to educate and engender fear in the population, but I can’t help wondering why we wish to continue using animals, or objects to represent abstract qualities, such as Apes to represent the uninhibited, or Ermine to represent fidelity. It seems to me that one has to know the language of symbolism in order to understand the meaning of what is being observed. This print contains a spiral text, in the form of an A to Z of some of the more common examples of images and their symbolic interpretation or meaning. However I must concede that during the middle ages and the Renaissance the introduction of a vision of hell, in a church or cathedral i.e. Fra Angelico’s Altarpiece for St Marco’s in Florence would always result in an increase in the number of the faithful.’
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