Principia
Works 2016-20
October 4 to November 10
The Exhibitions of Sineresi
Sineresi Arte, Italy
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Critical text A.J.Byrnes
Edited by Anna R.J.Rivelli
Photograph Alan Cotton
Edited by Anna R.J.Rivelli
Photograph Alan Cotton
Many thanks to Giovanni Cafarelli and editor Anna R.J.Rivelli
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| Minor Variations, 2003, oil and enamel on canvas, 153 x 183 cm. Private collection Australia |
'The deployment of reductionist aesthetics and the modernist grid – albeit an often disassembled one in Brooks’ work, provide key points of departure for both artist and viewer. The physical properties of the grid offer stasis and a lack of hierarchy, which informs the transformative promise of this work. Attention is given to the simplicity of the works’ structure, to their ordered qualities and muteness, which directs the viewer back upon the quality of his or her own perceptions. The viewer moves from a state of chaos to inner equilibrium and focused attention and as a consequence, one is urged to reflect on the present at a profoundly physical level. Every aspect of such an experience, its reflectiveness, the manner in which it illuminates the nature of our feeling and knowing through an object, a spatial situation, suggests an analogy to the posture and method of phenomenological inquiry.' Excerpt A.J.Byrnes, The Profundity of Nothing.
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| Arc, 2010, oil and enamel on paper, 41 x 31 cm x 2. Private collection Germany |
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| With Black Dot, 2011, oil, enamel, pigment and PVA on canvas, 43 x 33 cm. Private collection Australia |
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| White Process, 2019, oil on canvas, 137 x 183 cm. |
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| Brown Black Lines, 2020, oil on canvas, 41 x 31 cm |
'Terri Brooks la profondità del nulla, Dal caos dell'equilibrio interiore', Sineresi Arte, Cronache del Mezzogiorno, It. July 19, 2021. p5.
