History of the Landwehr Canal | Jonathan Kopinski

Jonathan Kopinski

History of the Landwehr Canal 12th February - 7th March

Jan Manton Art is pleased to present Jonathan Kopinski, a Brisbane-based artist with a focus on psycho-scenographic paintings that capture very particular and often peculiar moments of both personal and collective history.

Each scene is painted from memory (whether experienced firsthand or informed through learned events), without the use of photographic or reference material.

This recording occurs sometimes moments after the incident takes place; other times it emerges after decades. This separation between experience and representation is a vital part of the painting process, whereby the act of remembering allows for an intensified abstraction of character and setting.

In line with previous efforts, this collection has also been produced without a specific underlying narrative or conceptual arc. This allows for unexpected thematic affinities (i.e. places and issues of societal angst, crisis, politics, idealism) to unconsciously emerge between seemingly unrelated and irrational subject matter, blurring any perceived separation between past, present and future.

Young marxist student in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Incident on the Victoria Bridge, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Painting for Ivan Ilyich Leonidov, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Figure at the window in the Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

History of the Landwehr Canal, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Corporate worker watching the smoke blanket over the central business district, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Corporate lift lobby, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

View west from the boardroom of a corporate high rise, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Global city status, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Sick bay, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Ideologue speaking, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

der Kanal, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Careerist (in a vacuum), 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Globe (during neo nationalism), 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Man throwing a brick into a waterway, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Shouting in public, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

One hundred years from this day, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Portrait of a school friend (T.G.) who died, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

1919, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Crying soldier looking through the lounge room window, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Radio tower, 1939, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Pilgrimage to Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt proposal for Friedrichstrasse (worm’s eye view), 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Shenzhen special economic zone tourist visa, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Campus, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Bridge over the Brisbane River, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

News update (distracted sessional academic in a lecture theatre), 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Walking past a PPP development, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

A history of non-objective painters in Brisbane, 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

Ĺ Ăłdz interior (distant relative), 2019 40.6 x 50.8 cm, oil on canvas board on timber panel $450

All images by Jonathan Kopinski