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Stephen Farthing the FOURTH WALL PURDY HICKS · 2009 the Fourth Wall RANDY LERNER STEP HEN F AR THING THE FOUR TH WALL !"#$%#$%&'()%#*%+',-.%/01 !"#$%#$%#*$#)-%+',-.%1.#*2-)%3#2"%',-.0((%+'('4.5%1#*6%*-7#'2#08(-9 STEPHEN FARTHING: THE FOURTH WALL 13 NOVEMBER TO 12 DECEMBER 2009 PURDY HICKS GALLERY !" Hopton Street · Bankside · London #$% &'( Telephone + )) (*) +*, )*% &++& [email protected] Stephen Farthing THE FOURTH WALL PURDY HICKS · 2009 The Fourth Wall RANDY LERNER In writing this essay for a Stephen Farthing exhibition, interiors which prepared him for the -rst set of paint- I bring memories, conversations and a deep fondness ings that he would begin the following year. for Stephen as far more than a painter, but as a friend. While living in rural Kent in the early Eighties, With this, I bring also a bias in favour of his work that Farthing recalls reading Eugenie Grandet on the train I’ll acknowledge at the outset. Having met Stephen in while commuting to London to teach. The elaborate- very much his previous life in England, while still at ness of Balzac’s description of the room in which Mrs the Ruskin, I have seen his painting and studio prac- G’s chair was ‘living,’ coupled with the formal problem tice since shift from several decades of hectic coexis- of rendering the space, became the core elements in tence with his teaching-life, to a more serene but no this exhibition’s earliest and most formative painting. less urgent blend of painting and writing. His studio is Unlike Las Minas, in which Velasquez places an ob- now a gathering place for friends and artists and was a server in the back doorway, Farthing subtlety leaves crucial element in my own research into his long and the back doorway empty, thereby shifting the focus well-traveled painting career. solely to the front of the scene. In order to do this, Born and raised in Chelsea then South-elds, south however, he acknowledges the imaginary space which London, Stephen Farthing went to art school at Saint exists between the viewer and the interior by treating Martin’s and in %&!& went on to the Royal College it, as Farthing says ‘as a proscenium arch that separates of Art. During his second year at the ./0 he spent a the invented world from real.’ Whereas Velasquez was semester at The Cite Internationale des Artes, in the dealing with real world in which his goal was to show Marais, dividing his time between café life and the the painter in the midst of court portraiture, Farthing Louvre where he was able to pursue French literature rather is dealing with Balzac’s invented world in which and his burgeoning interest in court portraiture. Far- he is capturing a scene from an ongoing narrative thing spent the following year at The British School within the novel. His problem therefore is di1erent, as at Rome where he focused on the elaborate Roman is his solution: Stephen Farthing photographed by Deena Feinberg, 2008 Boucher: The Back Story, 2008 I was aware that I was after a moving target as the Notwithstanding, what a loose chronology does reveal to information- came at art schools like a shockwave principal changes in his most recent paintings. Focus- story is by de!nition moving along; Balzac is at is a distinct creative as well as intellectual continuity in %&&" and so instead of leading with experience, I ing on Boucher, The Back Story, which is the most recent liberty to describe all four interior walls as he has no that is broadly discernible throughout the exhibition. was out learning new skills and essentially presiding work in the show, it is the painting’s historic narrative issue of illusion. I needed to position the viewer some- Being concerned with how to organize his thinking on over a revolution …’ The point of these experiences in rather than the space or objects within the room that where to witness the scene but wasn’t ready to forfeit the 2at surface of the canvas has always been the point thinking about Farthing’s work is that he is a painter, are the core elements of the painting. The subject, one of the walls to make that happen. My solution of departure for Farthing, which makes the interviews not unlike his contemporary Mark Tansey, who lives Marie-Louise O’Murphy de Boisfaily a %)yr old, soon to was to treat one of the walls as transparent; it’s the that went along with the research for this essay so im- as much in the world of ideas as in the painter’s stu- be, mistress of Louis XV painted by Francois Boucher. wall I refer to as ‘the fourth wall.’ I decided to paint portant. He has over the years had the courage to make dio. Indeed, Farthing’s studio is essentially a mix of Farthing 2attens the space in order to bring her to the the backs of the furniture and objects with the same his paintings and let them speak for themselves; in this part library / part laboratory with stacks of books and forefront and with comparatively little attention to the level of detail as the fronts of other objects because the essay, however, he reveals much of what was behind computers competing for space with brush--lled cof- -gure, beautifully paints the drapery and upholstery information that the fourth wall contained was still their creation, which adds a new and valuable dimen- fee cans, compressors, charcoal and glues from Thai- and renders the divan with a slight degree of that same crucial to the scene; in the end, I was painting using sion to our understanding of Stephen Farthing. land not to mention an ever-present, oversized jar of animation of his early interiors. The most compelling multiple cameras, more as though I was !lming a Having coupled his art-making with teaching from Klein international blue grounds and endless tubes conceit, however, is his knitting together of language painting. relatively early on in his career, Farthing has been and small boxes of every conceivable shade of yellow with the painting’s formal structure by introducing in the midst not just of dealers and curators, but art paint on the planet. Examples of Farthing’s blend of the information regarding the sitter as both a decora- The Fourth Wall, as an exhibition, deals with not only students and faculty as well. His work is, therefore, painting and research had been in books such as An tive element and, as it’s reversed, in e1ect the space’s with current work, but paintings and drawings se- uniquely informed by the rigorous analysis that many Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Art, %&&3 and more ‘fourth wall.’ lected from throughout his career. Having written an artists leave behind when they leave school. As Mas- recently Dirtying the Paper delicately, +**" in which he essay on the -rst painting series that Farthing made ter of the Ruskin, for example, he was surrounded by discusses the role of drawing from making cartoons following his move to America (The Modern A!air, the debates and dialogues that were addressing the and academic studies to the white stripe that runs end- Stephen Farthing Paintings "###—"##$), I have looked to massive shift in assumptions about every component lessly down motorways. tie the work in this show together less as a continuous of art-making, from materials to content. ‘The digital The intellectual and analytical strain that has al- thought or set of themes, and more as a retrospective. and the internet- and the changing tastes and access ways run through Farthing’s work helps explain the :'%3-%"0,-% !"#*7$%2'%(''6%02% !"#$%&' Gadda!’s Tent, 1988 Mrs G’s Chair, 1982 Things to Look at in Bed, 1984 Roomaramma, 1984 The Cloudburst of Earthly Possesions, 1986 CHRONOLOGY / PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS the books under Mrs. G’s un-upholstered chair. It is a a step further by acknowledging my arti!ce by paint- slowly Leonardo must have drawn.’ He explains that playful scene but also a moody and serious one which ing the doors and hinges and boot-scraper making he then decided to force himself to draw more slowly !" How do you make your paintings? draws the viewer into the intimacy of what is, in the clear the designated entrance to the invented world. by using an airbrush. The result becomes twofold as #$ They’re all and have always all been self-com- end, collaboration between painter and writer. he forfeits the facility that allowed for the mimetic ac- THINGS TO LOOK AT IN BED, 1984 missioned … by some part of me that feels the need curacy on which he had always prided himself, and ROOMERAMMA TEA, 1984 to resolve or at least explore my curiosities on a "at The invented space is no more evident than in the also got him toward a conceptual rendering in which, board or canvas To a certain extent, Roomeramma Tea picks up from Things to Look at in Bed where Farthing takes his painted as he describes ‘I could enter the pre-psychedelic Mrs. G’s Room as again the image is set in a room with- diorama to his own reality in order to describe the con- renaissance in which the heavens were inhabited by MRS G’S CHAIR, 1982 out -gures and also comes from Balzac- in this case, fusion and chaos that his bedroom has become with the skeletons that were busy hurling down objects at de- Describing the late ’,*s and early ’3*s as a period ‘of Old Goriot. The interior elements have also again arrival his daughter (Constance Farthing was born in serving humans.’ been animated by Farthing although the palette is far nearly obsessive reading,’ Farthing settled on a variety %&3)).
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