Polyptych: tele | 2023
PADA Gallery, Barreiro, Portugal
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Polyptych: tele at Pada Gallery. By Della Gooden exhibited in Exhibition 36 curated by Tânia Geiroto Marcelin
‘Polyptych: tele’ at PADA Gallery – front-facing canvas with cut out
'Polyptych: tele' by Della Gooden in 'Show 36' curated by Tânia Geiroto Marcelin at PADA Gallery, Lisbon.
‘Polyptych: tele’ – a canvas painting, a string drawing, a floor painting…
'Polyptych: tele' at Pada Gallery. By Della Gooden for show 36 curated by Tânia Geiroto Marcelin at PADA Gallery, Portugal. Multiple surfaces and planes exist inside the painting.
a black string ‘plane’ improbably ‘foots’ the work
'Polyptych: tele' at Pada Gallery, Gallery, Lisbon. By Della Gooden for show 36 curated by Tânia Geiroto Marcelin
Acrylic paint on netting, revealed through the canvas painting
'Polyptych: tele' at Pada Gallery. By Della Gooden for show 36 curated by Tânia Geiroto Marcelin
Side view – painting on netting
'Polyptych: tele' at Pada Gallery, Gallery, Portugal. By Della Gooden for show 36 curated by Tânia Geiroto Marcelin (detail showing the side painting, of acrylic paint on netting)
A painting on netting, on the structural arm

‘Polyptych: tele’

‘Polyptych: tele‘ was made on site, for an exhibition curated by Tânia Geiroto Marcelino (PADA curator-in-residence). The title reflects the structural combination of paintings, as well as a more complex relationship to image, object, surface, painting, architecture and thought.

In the process of making it, I identified the multiple surfaces and planes that ‘Polyptych: tele‘ contains as discrete, but co-dependent elements; as paintings and drawings that face outwards at angles to the room, and which are tangled together, existing ‘inside’ the work. The front-facing ‘painting’ has a square hole in its canvas, giving (from certain angles) a glimpse of another painting (acrylic on netting) that occupies a space behind the canvas, on a structural arm of the work. A drawing of a triangle made with black string, stretches outwards, into the room. It cuts through the front-facing, painted canvas and travels across the floor (over another ‘painting’.)

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Materials: a triangle drawn with black string, a painted and cut canvas, painted netting with embroidery thread, wooden structural elements, painted architectural features, shadows and acrylic paint.

“Della Gooden takes a site-responsive approach to the architectural, spatial, and material contexts in which the work is made and considers how it can relate more explicitly to the structures and surfaces upon which it sits. By thinking of Painting and pictorial space as coded slightly differently, there is room for a more generative prospect spatially, giving her leave to open out alternative and multiple compositional possibilities.” (from the text accompanying the show)

‘Exhibition 36’ curated by Tânia Geiroto Marcelino.

Co-exhibitors: Robyn Carey, Dahyoung Choi, Rhona Jack, Sunna Svavarsdóttir, Lorena van Bunningen, Annabel Paran, Sebastian Poras Adolfsson and Hannah Parr.

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