Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present our first exhibition with newly represented artist David Frenoglio. Squaring the Circle will be on display between 25 July – 12 August 2023.
David Fenoglio is a Brisbane/Meanjin based artist and 2011 graduate of Queensland College of Art. Fenoglio has exhibited nationally and internationally, having spent a year in Europe following graduation. His travels abroad included researching works in Italian museums, studying painting at the Grand Central Atelier in New York, and drawing studies while working on farms. Fenoglio has now returned to his home town to focus on pursuing a representational art practice through oil painting and drawing.
“The time spent looking and contemplating through painting is a meditative experience. I hope for this experience to be held in the paintings and offered to the viewer to experience some calm and contemplation.” – David Fenoglio
Fenoglio’s works are inspired by the natural world and art history, but situated in a contemporary context. Fenoglio is known for his restrained and contemplative still life compositions, based in the historical and technical study of painting. His approach references natural realism—depicting organic and mineral surfaces in their natural state. But his contemporary practice pushes the objects beyond their materiality with its hyperrealistic rendering. The uncanny ability to make simple spaces and objects, not only look, but feel natural is achieved through Fenoglio’s technical exploration and extensive study of oil painting.
Fenoglio is currently a finalist in the Archibald Portrait Prize, finalist of the 2022 Doug Moran Portrait Prize, and winner the 2021 Rick Amor Drawing Prize.
In Conversation & Opening Drinks: Saturday 29 July, 4 – 6pm
Image: Golden, 2022, Oil on linen (framed), 41 x 61cm
