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JASON MARTIN
Jason Martin’s works are imbued with layer upon layer of acrylic on a hard
material such as steel or aluminium, simulating a wave. He is interested in
finding the movement that emerges from the pictorial space, spatial analysis
being his primary concern. The artist himself describes his works as journeys on
which we move across the surface.
From the olfactory point of view, his work can be defined in terms of that of
the the creator of essences: each layer of pictorial material is a raw material used
by the perfumer, so that the sum of all of these would be thefinished fragrance
… an olfactory chord.
—Cristina Agàpito
Günther Förg
In memories, every corner, every house, every building has its own scent: one’s
childhood home, the treehouse, the schoolhouse, the church, the first house of
one’s own.
I creep furtively into the pantry. The small window by the ceiling lets in a
lone, wan beam of light from the kitchen. I am immediately surrounded by the
scent of herbs, fruit and forbidden sweets.
Like Proust’s madeleine, or Grandmother’s bedchamber, so it is in our little pantry.
Aitor Ortiz
Smell is capable of invading any kind of space. A fragrance can be as fleeting as
the coming and going of people.
Other smells, in contrast, linger as long as the presence of the people who
inhabit them. These are more complex; they are made up of successes and
failures, of fights and celebrations, of noises and of silences.
But what happens to spaces before they are lived in, before they are lived …
when they are still virgin?
Only someone who has been in these non-places knows the answer.
Anna Malagrida
The windows mute,
the memories of sand,
the smell absent.
Slowly the trace in the depths of the gaze.
Vik Muniz
“Chocolate syrup seemed to me to be a great material because it was not only
easy to draw with, but it also carries a gamut of associations that makes it a very
complex material. Chocolate makes you think of love, luxury, romance, taste,
smell, obesity, scatology, stains, guilt, etc., associations that definitely short-circuit
the meaning of the original image I was drawing with the medium”.
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