The D'Aguilar Art Foundation presents 'Self-Consciousness',
an exhibition of paintings and sculptures from around the world, with both
Naive and Modernist concerns; exploring the delicate balance between
representation and conscious mark-making.
The work is reflective of the beginnings of Modernism,
when artists became as concerned with their own physical relationship to making
their work as they were to the audience's gaze; loosely defined by the examined
self-consciousness. The peculiar and repetative mark-making draws your
attention to the process of application. It is both gestural and
representational
All of this work was made after the official end
of Modernism, which was the 1960's. But trends move slowly to The Caribbean and
our landscape has not dictated a shift into Post-Modernism just yet.