Aaron Butt: Various Objects

Aaron Butt Various Objects 3 – 27th July 2019

Various Objects presents three loose strands of my studio practice; figurative paintings made in response to my research trip to Amsterdam in January this year; works made immediately prior to this trip and to as far as 2014 and non-objective objects from both before and after the trip. While differing greatly in appearance, many of the works engage with notions of transit, and present travel as a methodology in and of itself. The figurative works navigate images that I encountered in books or took or while in Amsterdam, increasingly drawn to the verticality of historic buildings and places of worship. Works from before the trip proceed these interests in verticality and transit, with subjects such as walking, bungee jumping, highwire and distant memorials. Many of the abstract paintings attempt to embody the idea of transportation through scale, or appropriate the aesthetics of freight, such as cardboard and tape. Bridging all strands is an ongoing interest in and investigation of photography as an ideal bridge between distance places and times. Presenting these disparate objects together in the gallery without differentiation is an attempt to invite subtle connections and new understandings, while presenting my practice highly consciously as an ongoing cycle of investigation and revisitation.

Aaron Butt

Left; Buren Walking (2019) Oil on canvas 20 x 25 cm $700 Right; Serra (2019) Oil on board 12 x 26 cm $700

Left; Kröller-Müller Grounds (2019) Oil and acrylic on canvas 51 x 51 cm $1,200 Right; Canal (2019) Oil on canvas 16 x 16 cm $1,000

Top; Book market Spui R(2019) Oil and acrylic on canvas diptych 61 x 31 cm $1,000 Bottom; Man readinI (2019) Oil and acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 cm $1,200

Left; Adriaan (2018) Oil on board 30.5 x 30.5 cm $1,000 Right; Near Kröller-Müller (2019) Oil on board 41 x 30 cm $1,000

Left; Siegelaub (2018) Graphite and acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm $1,200 Right; Geert (2019) Oil on board 30.5 x 30.5 cm $1,000

Left; Portland (2018) Acrylic on board and frame 34 x 34 cm $900 Right; Replacement Piece (2019) Oil and acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 cm $900

In Search of the Miraculous (2019) Oil on board 40 x 50 cm $1,200

Mont Marte I & Mont Marte II (2019) Oil and collage on canvas panel 13 x 18 cm $500 each

Petit Study (2018) Graphite and acrylic on brush holder insert 36 x 11.5 cm $900

Left; Tower Study (Canal) I (2019) Oil on canvas panel 20 x 25.5 cm $900 Right; Tower Study (Canal) II (2019) Oil on canvas panel 30 x 40 cm $900

Left; Birds (Rijksmuseum)(2019) Oil on board 33 x 25.5 cm $900 Right; Sol Le Witt Plaque (Gemeentemuseum) (2019) Oil on board 20 x 20 cm $900

Mosque (Bijlmer) II(2019) Oil on brush holder insert 36 x 11.5 cm $700

Left; Ian Burn at the Gemeentemuseum (2018) Oil on board 6 x 5 cm $400 Middle; Void (2017) Oil on vintage art magazine page 22 x 24 cm $400

Right; Church (2019) Oil on found wooden cube 3 x 3 cm (irregular) $400

Left; Lawrence Weiner igniting the residue of a flare upon a boundary (2018) Oil on board and frame 20 x 20 cm $800 Right; Green Grey Painting (2017) Oil on raw canvas 40 x 40 cm $800

Krüller-Möller (Weiner) (2019) Acrylic on board with recess 47 x 23 cm $900

Left; M.E. (Sardine) (2019) Digital print 46 x 30 cm $500 Right; Mosque (Bijlmer) I (2019) Oil on hessian 7.5 x 7.5 cm $500

Left; A Painting for the Netherlands (2018) Acrylic on hessian 11 x 11 cm $500 Right; Triangle Series (V) (2019) Acrylic on sandpaper and Perspex object 22 x 26 cm $400

Triangle Series (I), (II), (III) (2019) Acrylic on sandpaper and Perspex object 22 x 26 cm $400 each

Left; Grey Circle (2019) Acrylic on round canvas 30 cm diameter $900 Right; White Circle (2019) Oil on round canvas 20 cm diameter $700

Survivor Ring Series (2017) Enamel on recycled card 30 x 42 cm, 24 parts $200 each, $4,000 whole series

Survivor Ring (2017) Brushed aluminium composite panel Dimensions variable, nine objects $500

Left; Memorial (Pennsylvania) (2016) Digital print on ACM 61 x 41 cm $600 Right; A painting to send I (2019) Acrylic on canvas 27 x 31 cm (irregular) $900

Left; Abstraction (Tape) (2018) Acrylic on canvas 21 x 26 cm $700 Middle; Gargoyle (after Rubens) (2018) Oil on board 9.5 x 13.5 cm $600

Right; A painting to send II (2019) Oil on canvas 20 x 25 cm $600

Man reading (after Rooney) (2018) Oil on board 29 x 21 cm $900

Walnuts (2019) Five objects and acrylic Dimensions variable $700

Europe I & Europe II (2017) Acrylic on canvas panel 25 x 35 cm $700 each

Europe III & Europe V (2017) Acrylic on canvas panel 25 x 35 cm $700 each

Left; Lacan Diagram I (2017) Acrylic on silk lino 10 x 6 cm $300 Right; Lacan Diagram II (2017) Acrylic on silk lino 8 x 5 cm $250

Lacan Diagram (2017) Perspex 51 x 25 cm $500

Left; Opalka (2014) Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm $1,000 Right; Spiral Jetty (2018) Oil on canvas 20 x 25 cm $900

Left; Arabic Abstraction (2019) Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm $700 Right; Arabic Squares (2019) Oil on paper around canvas with Tasmanian oak frame 21 x 26 cm $700

Left; Open Ateliers Logo (2018) Oil on card 21 x 30 cm (irregular) $400 Right; M.E (Calder) (2017) Graphite on card 21 x 30 cm $300

M.E (Ive been searchin) (2018) Oil on canvas panels 25 x 20 cm, 18 parts $500 each, $7,000 whole series

Left; Study for M.E (Arc De Triomphe) (2018) Oil on canvas panel 20 x 25 cm $500 Right; M.E (Arc De Triomphe) (2018) Oil on card 35 x 25 cm $900

Every Minoru Yamasaki Building on Wikipedia (except two)(2018) (details) Artist book, edition of 10 14 x 10 cm $80

Bungee flipbook (2017) Artist book, edition of 10 20 x 15 cm $90

Nineteen sketches (2019) Artist book, edition of 10 29 x 22 cm $100

Bird Sequence (2019) (detail) Artist book, edition of 10 20 x 25 cm $100

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