Simon Edmondson

Simon Edmondson - Incarnate 3

Technique: Oil painting

Artist Biography: Simon Edmondson (United Kingdom, 1955) is an artist who trained in reputed British schools before achieving an M.A. in Painting at Chelsea College of Art (London) 1977-78, and an M.F.A. in Painting at Syracuse University (New York) 1978-80. He is considered one of the most important painters on the international scene with exhibitions in Great Britain, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the United States and Spain. Edmondson practices, since his beginnings, a figurative painting and expressionist language, where the forms are undone and vanish in empty and ruinous scenarios, as a nostalgic and rescuing evocation of the past. He had his first major institutional exhibition at the Deutsche Bank in Madrid in 1998 and in 2009/10 at the Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt in Austria.

 

Simon Edmondson (London, 1955) is a London artist based in Madrid for decades with a long artistic career that combines tradition with a modern look. Among his influences we find great masters such as Velázquez or Goya and the deformations of Francis Bacon. Thus, his painting is characterized by its figurative cut and the use of expressionist language in which the figures fall apart between empty and noisy backgrounds full of color. In particular, "Incarnados 3" captures characters that, as if they were a blurred memory, evaporate in the crowd. All this makes that, with a nostalgic evocation and a tone of denunciation, his paintings protest in the name of humanity.