Kith and Kin

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By Diana Baur
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

20 × 20 × 3.5 cm

Materials:

Fabric collage, acrylics and varnish on canvas

Primary Medium:

Painting

Small
2010
Requires Framing
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Kith and Kin was the smallest painting of a set of three, all of different sizes. Collectively they explored the notion of separation, loss, angst and suffering engendered in families who have lost loved ones in recent wars. That awful and repeated phrase that we have got so used to hearing on the TV news "His next of kin have been informed" was in my mind when I painted a large, textured painting called "Next of Kin". Kith and Kin centres on those who have lost loved ones. The work is very thickly layered with suggestions of bandaging. The bereaved need healing. The photographs do not do the work justice. It contains some very deep reds, and is thickly varnished to preserve it. I referenced the work of "the Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915–1995) who was at the forefrontof postwar avant-gardism. Starting in the late 1940s, he transformedburlap sacks with pumice and tar into thoughtfully stitched collages,and shaped hunks of wood, iron and plastic into powerful, expressivefine-art forms. His radical use of nonart materials paved the way for thesubsequent Arte Povera (literally, “poor art”) movement of the 1960s and’70s, now seen as a critical influence on much contemporary work." Displaying this work in the home of someone recently bereaved would be an ideal situation for it. Now sold.

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