Text by Storm Janse van Rensburg
Published on occasion of the show "Bloomsbury Revisited" at Galerie Peter Kilchmann.
Bas often displays protagonists that seem lost, as if in a game of their own making. Within the framework of the exhibition, Hernan Bas presents a newly created group of works consisting of large and small-scale paintings of acrylic on linen as well as works on paper. A catalogue with a text by Storm Janse van Rensburg will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.
Under the title Bloomsbury revisited , Hernan Bas embarks on an expedition to the bohemian world of the Bloomsbury Group: a loose collective of friends and relatives that lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsbury, during the first half of the 20th century, including writers, painters and philosophers such as Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. The group was connected by a complex network of relationship shaped by shared interests, an unconventional world view, and an open approach to sensuality. They regularly met in English countryside retreats, such as the residence Charleston to hold drama readings, art projects and discussions.
Inspired by the liberal lifestyle of this illustrious group of artists, Hernan Bas explores in his new body of works the environment of their artistic processes.
