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- 30 - 39
‘Me ’n’ Jack’ is the highly anticipated next solo show by contemporary artist, Chris Moon. The solo exhibition by the British painter coincides with the release in cinemas of documentary, An Artist’s Eyes made about Moon’s career as he navigates the art world, as directed by the iconic filmmaker, Jack Bond. The only film director to work with Salvador Dali, Jack Bond has not filmed another artist - until now.
If for Moon, the film serves to document his early art career, exhibitions and the making of new work, this new body of paintings and sketches in ‘Me ’n’ Jack’ has in turn, unintentionally documented the film. It is as if the paintings have captured part of the story the camera hasn’t. This new body of work unequivocally offers the film’s narrative through the eyes of the artist - both poetically in terms of the working relationship and friendship between Moon as artist and Jack as director, and geographically in terms of the contrasting landscapes of London and Epping Forest, New York and Andalucia, Spain.
Many of the works feature Jack Bond and Moon himself, a portrait of the duo that takes centre stage in the show. Whilst other postcard sized paintings made whilst filming in New York offer the viewer scenes of the city that are at once busy and lonesome, other works depict scenes from Andalucia, captured brilliantly by Moon in lines, shapes and contours that have become a discernible signature in his paintings.
Moon would sketch Jack throughout filming, always envisioning the final chapter ending with him painting Jack’s portrait. Consequently, Jack sat for a portrait in Moon’s London studio.
“When I first met Jack, I asked if I could paint his portrait. Jack said he would like to make a film about me as an artist, so from my perspective, the film is the journey I took to paint his portrait… The film just got in the way!” Chris Moon
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About Chris Moon
Chris Moon is an Outsider painter of prodigious talent. Now with six sell-out solo shows behind him - five in London and one in New York - Chris’ only education in art and rendering was taken from the experiences that shaped him and the images he absorbed. Bypassing his peers in who were in art schools, Chris possesses something that many artists work tirelessly to achieve - an innate understanding of colour, shape and form, with an uncanny and effortless ability to render past memories and events in sharp, yet dream-like detail.
A single painting often receives due attention, and completion, countless times. He brings these works to places where other artists would have stopped and passed on to their dealer, only to then take it apart, scrape it back, leave in just a series of marks and start all over again. What finally appears - and is an emergent process - is a multi-layered depth like staring into an ocean; you can see only one surface, but you know that countless other stories lurk beneath. His paintings offer the viewer a back catalogue of places he been and his own unique experiences of them.
Chris Moon’s paintings are in private collections across the globe.
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