Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Best known for his Cloud Canyons or Bubble Machines, this work of David Medalla exemplifies the long welcome shadow of his rebellion before he settled in London. These paintings reject volume and instead stress the the two dimensionalities of the painting surface by means of flat linear figures. Children’s art, primitive art, and art brut all come together to mock the seriousness of high art and introduce the element of child’s play. Medalla always believed in ephemeralness and flexibility in ways of seeing and the subject’s archaism seems to have a radical and therefore revolutionary visual quality.