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(Sequier Schubert)
 What strikes you first about the painting of Xavier Sequier and Angelika Schubert, the French/Austrian painting team, is the central theme of expressive and psychic power emanating from the bold dominant shape smack in the middle of the canvas. The internal scale of this hybrid, half organic, half mythic form, spreading across the background, pushing its power outwards, presents an unfettered freedom. As you watch these diverse and irregular shapes extend their lives, you are drawn to examine the raw visceral surfaces of the paintings. Up close the paint presents vitality, unearthing its real nature and true potential, allowing it to shatter and crack or swirl and flow. It blocks and challenges the environment and by juxtaposing texture against texture the artists have created configurations that embody internal states of being.
sequier schubert's direct and immediate handling of the paint in liquid, flowing, spreading, pooling applications gives a new expression to the modernist idea of working out the materials. The thick raw paint, with twisting organic areas of color, becomes pervasive and expansive. Exploded onto the complex pigments of the backgrounds, themselves a myriad of shifting and elusive indeterminate space, or left to float in a single field of visceral mono-chromatic color, they have created the opposites of contrast between the organic and the theatrical. This open intuitive approach emphasizes an abstract type of painting devoid of any constraining systems such as neo-plasticism.
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