Double Story series – Malcolm Koch

This current series of work is formed by using the topography of the curved canvas. I apply what I call ‘quantum brushstrokes’ to make structural marks – which cannot be achieved on a flat picture plane.

*Close-up of Double Story_No4 in transition to the other side (Double exposured image).* *Oil on synthetic board.*

One ‘expression’ creates many — intertwined within the same plane and its reverse side — with an equal degree of value. Being able to interchange to the ‘other’ side creates a co-dependent relationship from one to the other which may be viewed as completing the experience.

That said. Not getting the whole picture in one go is part of the human condition. This work offers a glimpse of the whole. However, we can only observe the work from one side at a time. Therefore, by describing something that’s the same for both sides, regardless of which side you‘re on, is a realisation that our inability to engage with its entirety is real. Nevertheless, it is through the inverse (reciprocal expressions) that truth is revealed. That there are two sides to every story, yet it is all one.

Currently unframed, these oil paintings come with a framing solution. Please talk to the artist.