David Bowes

by Frederick Ted Castle

The paintings of David Bowes are characterized by his multiple sources which come from art history and History in a broad sense as well as from a more or less reinvented mythology. That is how he moves from the medieval chivalrous culture to classic India passing by landscapes which may remind of Africa. It is then interesting to observe through his works the examples of both contamination and cultural eclecticism he uses to immerse us in a fairy universe. In his most recent works, we can find again his game of relocation where constructions, customs and feasts of one part of the world are placed in the opposite a pagoda built in an American town, plants and native transplanted in another part of the earth, ceremonies, traditions that, by the means of journeys, oral culture and globalization of the industry, are all relocated from East to West and vice versa. Like pollen in the wind.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1989