Ryan Mosley

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Ryan Mosley, 2017

Ryan Mosley (* 1980 in Chesterfield ) is a British painter. He lives and works in Sheffield and London.

Life

After studying at the University of Huddersfield , which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2003, he continued his studies at the Royal College of Art , which he completed in 2007 with a Master of Art degree.

Charles Saatchi first saw Mosley's work at the 2007 Royal College of Art graduation exhibition and a few months later bought the first three paintings from a group show in the East End . In 2009, Mosley's pictures were represented in the overview exhibition of British post-war artists “Newspeak: British Art Now” organized by Saatchi at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg. In 2012 he took part in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. His first exhibition in Germany also took place in 2012, organized by the Berlin gallery Eigen + Art . He had his first solo exhibition in New York in 2013 at the Tierney Gardarin Gallery. In 2016/17 Mosley took part in the group exhibition Painters' Painters at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The exhibition, which was extensively discussed in the Anglo-Saxon press, showed works by nine artists from the Saatchi Collection. What all participating artists have in common is their engagement with figurative painting .

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During his studies in London, Mosley worked as a security assistant at the National Gallery and had plenty of time to look at and copy old master paintings . He names works of occidental art history as one of his sources of inspiration. The wealth of ideas and shapes in his pictures can be seen among other things. a. also in the abundance of art-historical references with which his pictures are charged. Traces of this can be found in the themes - from the medieval dance of death, the killing of the dragon, comedy scenes that are reminiscent of Watteau, to the bar visitors depicted in many pictures by the Impressionists. Quotations can be found both in individual motifs and in the design of details such as clothing or props with their allusions to iconographic meanings that have emerged in the course of art history. Without exception, all critics who deal with his work draw attention to image quotations and formal references.

Mosley himself has spoken out about his affinity with the Old Masters several times . “I like that the forays into art history sometimes make a fool of you. Characters become almost timeless, like looking at a 13th century painting that could have been painted yesterday ”. He says of his painting George and the Dragon that it is based on a painting by Bermejo . He assumes that the artist did not know his subject first hand. So he alludes to the idea of ​​something like the depiction of evil, the dragon, a demon, Lucifer . Our idea of ​​a modern kite could be the one that is on the flag of Wales , but it could also be something different. “My George And The Dragon could be a modern pub sign. I like these different readings and I use my own narrative styles in my pictures ”. The diamond pattern used to be called “Devil's Cloth”, “[...] today we tend to associate it with the harlequin or the court jester . It's like a uniform for the mentally ill ( mentally ill ). "

Mosley usually prefers very large formats for his work. His intensely brightly colored pictures are painted with oil on canvas. The process of creating a large picture can take several weeks, as very thin oil paint is always applied to the basic design in each picture, whereby the originally applied paint still shines through. Sometimes the paint is scratched off again and repainted. This creates an abundance of fluid-looking layers of color, so that the colors finally appear translucent and the finished picture looks like a pastel or watercolor painting. The stories told in the pictures also change during the creation process. According to Mosley, sometimes a painting begins with an idea for a story and then, in accordance with the painting process, the story emerges. The large canvases, populated with their bizarre figures, strictly delimited, geometric color surfaces and surrealistic plant elements, have a strong narrative appeal and leave the viewer plenty of scope for their own reading. The puzzling picture titles, such as B. "Allegory of Prudence, The Family Bullrush" (2009/10), "Nowhere, Except from Where they Stand" (2012), "Saying Nothing & Hearing Everything" (2013) or "Bacchanal Poetics" (2016) by are always given to the artist after the painting has been completed.

Prizes and awards

  • 2010: Kansas City International Artists Residency, Kansas, Missouri
  • 2007: Basil H. Alkazzi Award, New York, NY
  • 2005: Visual Arts Travel Scholarship, Royal-Over-Seas League, Australia

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2012: Reversed Limbo , Eigen + Art , Berlin
  • 2013: Thoughts of Man , Tierney Gardarin Gallery, New York
  • 2015: The Mirror Never Reflects , Eigen + Art, Berlin
  • 2014: Band of None , Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
  • 2016: Anatomy and the Wall , Alison Jacques Gallery, London
  • 2017: Ryan Mosely, From the Verges , Eigen + Art , Leipzig
  • 2018: Under Moon , Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp,

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short Biography - Gardarin Gallery , accessed on 30 June 2017th
  2. ^ Anne Reimers: Shaded Dance on the Abyss in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 6, 2011, accessed on July 5, 2017
  3. ^ Ryan Mosley at Tierney Gardarin Gallery, NY. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
  4. ^ Ryan Mosley Exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery , accessed July 4, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Painting something that you've never experienced, there's something fantastic about it; sometimes [starting] with an idea for narrative, then sometimes, according to the process of the painting, the narrative arrives. "Quoted from: Bunte Rituale, the paintings of Ryan Mosley, in: Vogue . Kulturblog, March 27, 2012
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  10. ↑ Pictures from the exhibition on artsy , accessed on July 6, 2017.
  11. ↑ Images of the exhibition in Cuba Paris , accessed on 6 July 2017th
  12. ^ Pictures from the exhibition Galerie Susanne Vielmetter
  13. ^ Pictures from the exhibition Alison Jacques Gallery
  14. ^ Art Agenda, Tim Van Laere Gallery, accessed December 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Mosley, Ryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Chesterfield (Derbyshire)