SERIES CHAISE-LONGUE

A chaise-longue, which Marcel Duchamp would have exiled from the painter´s work place, has found its way into Edmondson´s studio in Usera. Duchamp declared somewhere that the artist must rid him or herself from all such forms of traditional paraphernalia. 

'Polyamory' 

oil on paper | 122 x 152 cm | 2019

'Diván No.4'

oil on paper | 47 x 54.5 cm | 2017

'Head to Head'

oil on paper | 122 x 152 cm | 2016

'Cuna'

oil on paper | 122 x 152 cm | 2016

'TWO'

wood and gesso construction 

50 x 100 cm | 2019

'Navío'

oil on paper | 122 x 152 cm | 2016

This exhibition for APERTURA MADRID is titled Chaise-longue and links the present with the past. Using quasi-figurative furnishings as a kind of subtle abbreviation for reclining Olympias, Majas, or Venuses, the past and referencies to it , become the painters ally.

'Chaise-Longue No.2'

oil on paper | 122 x 152 cm | 2016

'ONE´ 

wood and gesso construction

50 x 100 cm | 2019

'Palanquin'

oil on paper | 122 x 152 cm | 2016

'Chaise-Longue'

oil on paper | 122 x 152 cm | 2016

Hybrid armchairs face each other, sofas and chimneys provide backdrops, suggestive presences and colours range from the coquettish to the ominous.