Daniel Enkaoua: Recent Paintings

Dates: 3.4.2009 to 30.4.2009. In his succinct introduction to the exhibition catalogue, Timothy J. Standring, the Gates Foundation Curator of Painting & Sculpture at Denver Art Museum, writes: 'In these new works, Daniel Enkaoua affirms the strong presence of his own poetic intentions, the emergence of which may be mysterious to the artist himself. His paintings are what they are: wonderfully complex productions of his imagination that continues to give the more we view them. They reveal the tonality, lighting, and palette that-he has discovered-succeed and that fulfill that poetic dimension. Not all practitioners of the visual arts reach this level. While some achieve it, they also fail to sustain it. Here, however, is an artist who is close to Parnassus and will stay there because he willingly challenged himself to take risks by keeping all of the various stylistic and iconographic antecedents under control. To be sure, these works demand more of the viewer, but the rewards are immeasurably greater for the efforts taken.' Daniel Enkaoua paints those closest to himself, his wife and children, friends, the cooking pots and vessels in the house. References are made to past masters: Morandi, Caravaggio, Chardin, Morandi and Rembrandt but these paintings combine a sensitivity and a vivid feeling of abstraction not previously seen in his work. The paint work is beautifully applied on to the canvas often with the additional help of a palette knife and the artist's fingers and palm to enhance the luminescence of the finished work. These paintings will reward any viewer who has time to look at them.

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