Most of Arends’ Boxes consist of what you could describe as a series of thin skins laid over a framework, a body, of wood or steel or even cardboard: the one, a layer of wax and graphite, and the other, a layer of oil paint, alternately concealing and revealing what lies beneath. The wax has been laid down by hand, the traces of the pencil and pigment barely visible, yet no less present, through the traces of the artist’s hands.
What brings the materiality of the surface to light is,
paradoxically, Arends’ erasures: opened up, poked full of holes, the skins are twinned, intertwined. They become at once figure and ground. This might seem like a merely academic exercise were it not for the strangely unsettling effect of being asked to look at a work which seems simultaneously finished and in danger of unraveling altogether: as though the paintings are a whole cloth, caught in the process of coming slowly undone. Or, slowly coming together.
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Available artworks
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GIRL IN THE WINDOW (RED), 2022
Oil, pencil and/or ink on wood,
15,5 x 30,5 x 4,5 cm -
JOHNSON COUNTY, 2022
Oil, pencil and/or ink on wood,
15,5 x 30,5 x 4,5 cm -
SKETCH #4, 2021
Oil and wax on cardboard mounted on wood,
26 x 20,5 x 11,5 cm -
ART ATTACK ANNOUNCEMENT #1, 2022
Flashe and pencil and/or ink on paper,
20,5 x 13,5 cm -
ART ATTACK ANNOUNCEMENT #16, 2022
Flashe and pencil and/or ink on paper,
20,5 x 13,5 cm -
Canoe, 2014
oil and wax on wood recovery
32,5 x 7 x 3,5 cm -
Boat with stripes, 2014
oil and wax on wood recovery
49,5 x 8,9 cm -
Domino, 2014
oil and wax on wood recovery
17 x 7,6 cm cad. (5 pezzi) -
Gussco, 2014
oil and wax on recovery of cardboard, mounted on wood
13,5 x 9,5 x 4,5 cm -
Letter Block #2, 2014
oil and wax on wood recovery
4,2 x 4,2 x 4,2 cm -
Animal Block #3, 2014
oil and wax on wood recovery
4,2 x 4,2 x 4,2 cm -
LDV 12, 2011
pencil, oil and wax on paper
52 x 52 cm -
LDV 5, 2011
pencil, oil and wax on paper
52 x 52 cm -
LDV 9, 2011
pencil, oil and wax on paper
52 x 52 cm -
PDF - W 6, 2009
oil paint on a solid wax block
11 x 9 x 6 cm -
Sister 1, 2013
oil paint on a solid wax block
11 x 9 x 6 cm -
PDF - W 7, 2009
oil paint on a solid wax block
10,5 x 9 x 6 cm
Installations
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Wax - Installation view
Studio la Città - 2013
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Stuart Arends - Installation view
Studio la Città 2010
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Art Attack/Unfolded, 2022
Installation view
Videos
Available artworks
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GIRL IN THE WINDOW (RED), 2022
Oil, pencil and/or ink on wood,
15,5 x 30,5 x 4,5 cm -
JOHNSON COUNTY, 2022
Oil, pencil and/or ink on wood,
15,5 x 30,5 x 4,5 cm -
SKETCH #4, 2021
Oil and wax on cardboard mounted on wood,
26 x 20,5 x 11,5 cm -
ART ATTACK ANNOUNCEMENT #1, 2022
Flashe and pencil and/or ink on paper,
20,5 x 13,5 cm -
ART ATTACK ANNOUNCEMENT #16, 2022
Flashe and pencil and/or ink on paper,
20,5 x 13,5 cm -
Canoe, 2014
oil and wax on wood recovery
32,5 x 7 x 3,5 cm -
Boat with stripes, 2014
oil and wax on wood recovery
49,5 x 8,9 cm -
Domino, 2014
oil and wax on wood recovery
17 x 7,6 cm cad. (5 pezzi) -
Gussco, 2014
oil and wax on recovery of cardboard, mounted on wood
13,5 x 9,5 x 4,5 cm -
Letter Block #2, 2014
oil and wax on wood recovery
4,2 x 4,2 x 4,2 cm -
Animal Block #3, 2014
oil and wax on wood recovery
4,2 x 4,2 x 4,2 cm -
LDV 12, 2011
pencil, oil and wax on paper
52 x 52 cm -
LDV 5, 2011
pencil, oil and wax on paper
52 x 52 cm -
LDV 9, 2011
pencil, oil and wax on paper
52 x 52 cm -
PDF - W 6, 2009
oil paint on a solid wax block
11 x 9 x 6 cm -
Sister 1, 2013
oil paint on a solid wax block
11 x 9 x 6 cm -
PDF - W 7, 2009
oil paint on a solid wax block
10,5 x 9 x 6 cm
Installations
-
Wax - Installation view
Studio la Città - 2013
-
Stuart Arends - Installation view
Studio la Città 2010
-
Art Attack/Unfolded, 2022
Installation view
