SKY PORTALS: NIMBUS. 2022.

151x111x3cm

Inherited hand dyed offcuts of fur, Agua Florida, canvas, wood - activated by air.

Following Louise Bourgeois’s counsel to look up for inspiration, Gilberts “Sky Portals” (paintings made from inherited offcuts of hand dyed fur, salvaged from the fashion industry) turn the ceiling of the gallery space into a quivering skyscape. They shift the focus of the gaze away from grounded and pictorial concerns, beckoning the mind to lose itself in realms of reverie and wonder. The oval representing the sacred geometry of the Vesica Pisces, a conduit between the celestial and the terrestrial. These ‘Furescoes’ recalling the religious and renaissance paintings of celestial bodies found in grand palazzos, churches and temples, operate as contemporary installations, offering a way back to otherwise mysterious realms to the metaphysical background of the world; the invisible, the unsaid, the felt. A world of magic and mayhem, a portal to perception, a hypnagogic dreamscape, activated by air and scent.

'Gilberts mythical worlds intersect flexurally spacial environments with intense emotional frequencies and meanings. A sky portal is a doorway to the chaotic universe of emotions, it operates to reflect your emotional devolution and or evolution. The viewer becomes the receiver of this sensory cosmic investigation.I see Bert Gilberts avant-garde artworks as Baroque skies, murals on ceilings of great halls of architectural and theatres like the sky of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza or the cosmic backgrounds that appear in Byzantine domes.”