And yet time and again, there are moments in which a work of art does indeed catch our eye, thereby creating another setting in which the topic “Art & Viewer” comes to the fore. The thematic group entitled “Back to Figuration” brings together works whose very format alone makes them stand out.
For the most part, these are paintings dating back to the 1980s – a time in which a group of artists deployed gestural brushstrokes and applied layer upon layer of paint in revisiting figurative art. Representational though these works may be, there is more to them than just a depiction of reality.