{"id":2240,"date":"2013-03-05T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2013-06-10T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:34:13","slug":"art-we-love-two-door-mats-by-gerald-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/05\/art-we-love-two-door-mats-by-gerald-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"ART WE LOVE: Two Door Mats by Gerald Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2241\" title=\"Art We Love  - 2 Door Mats \" src=\"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Korper_2012_01_2210625.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Korper_2012_01_2210625.jpeg 630w, http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Korper_2012_01_2210625-265x300.jpg 265w, http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Korper_2012_01_2210625-299x338.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Halifax-based conceptual artist Gerald Ferguson (1937-2009) always did everything he could to avoid making beautiful paintings\u2014but ended by making them anyhow, almost against his will.\u00a0 One of his ploys was to distance himself as much as possible from the actual act of painting.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, he frequently used a frottage or \u201crubbing\u201d technique by which he would lay objects on the studio floor, cover them with canvas, apply pigment (usually black enamel) to the now lumpy canvas with a roller, and then pull back the canvas to see what he had.\u00a0 He employed mostly banal, everyday objects for this frottage process: coils of garden hose, for example, and lengths of snow fencing and, in this case, ordinary hardware-store door mats.<\/p>\n<p>Here, in his <em>Two Door Mats<\/em>, he has frottaged two mats, one above the other, onto the creamy, raw canvas he favoured\u2014with the result that what was once just a couple of doormats, is now a dense, richly explorable image with the strength and grandeur of much recent mainline abstract painting (Mark Rothko, Richard Serra, etc.)\u2014to which it alludes and which it deliberately evokes<\/p>\n<p>The Gerald Ferguson exhibition opens March 2 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Korper_2012_01_2210625.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2241\" title=\"Art We Love  - 2 Door Mats \" src=\"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Korper_2012_01_2210625.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Korper_2012_01_2210625.jpeg 630w, http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Korper_2012_01_2210625-265x300.jpg 265w, http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Korper_2012_01_2210625-299x338.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>, 17 Morrow Avenue, and runs until March 30.\u00a0 <em>Two Door Mats<\/em> is $21,500.\u00a0 416-538-8220.\u00a0 www.olgakorpergallery.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halifax-based conceptual artist Gerald Ferguson (1937-2009) always did everything he could to avoid making beautiful paintings\u2014but ended by making them anyhow, almost against his will.\u00a0 One of his ploys was to distance himself as much as possible from the actual act of painting. 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