Darren Wardle

Darren Wardle’s exquisitely executed paintings of abandoned architectural structures explore the cooler possibilities of the painting process with his seamless nearly cinematic landscapes. Using Modernist architecture to explore spatial illusion as well as to elaborate a vision of contemporary consciousness,... [more]

 

Darren Wardle’s exquisitely executed paintings of abandoned architectural structures explore the cooler possibilities of the painting process with his seamless nearly cinematic landscapes. Using Modernist architecture to explore spatial illusion as well as to elaborate a vision of contemporary consciousness, he brings an obsessive handling to his depictions of surfaces, furniture, and other decorative elements in a given space. The artifice of these spatial scenarios is heightened by Wardle’s trademark use of extremely synthetic colour, a delirious counterpoint to the austerity of much Modernist architecture. The resulting interiors and exteriors, seem schizophrenic in their attributes, and, along with the shifting perspectives he often employs within a single picture plane, give a portrait of the loneliness and confusion of contemporary existence as well as the failure of Modernism as a cohesive aesthetic movement.

 

 

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