Paintskin survey
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2009
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Hoban, P.G.
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'Paintskin Survey' showed a cross-section of Hoban's painting produced during the last two decades including new work produced between 2005 and 2009. Hoban's research into the practice of painting and its metaphoric resonances contradicts the idea of a painting as a carefully modulated and planned surface built up through layers of paint by reversing this process to reveal the unintentional underside of this skin of paint. The 'Paintskins' are a conceptually driven inversion of traditional painting practice in which the original marks are preserved and displayed intact. All traditional painting could ironically be termed a process of covering up. This reversal of process revealing a hidden underside could be seen metaphorically as revealing the invisible underpinnings of enculturation bringing to the light the things that unite us as human - biology neurology optics and pattern perception- rather than those things that speak of cultural difference.
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Copyright 2009 Paul Hoban