"Cinéma du Look" Steve Rosendale

Steve Rosendale Cinéma du Look 22 April – 8 May

Steve Rosendale Cinéma du Look For this new series of paintings, I have placed romanticised cityscapes in high contrast alongside tattered postcards. Nostalgic stills from a luminescent past which seem strangely familiar yet eerily distant. I use a palette of cross processed Kodachrome in order to create drama and atmosphere, a work that appears 'half remembered’.

I was glued to the television as a child and often use film stills to create my work. The postcards I stumbled across in second hand shops and they seemed like they were already little works of art. This use of what I call 'second hand' imagery are just the tools I use in order to obtain the real goal of creating a work of art that carries the drama and atmosphere of an experimental new wave film.

I collage together these little vignettes of postcards, films and photography in order to combine memory, dreams and fantasy into a finished artwork.

Steve Rosendale

Twin Palms II Oil on Linen 117cm x 184cm SOLD

La Vita Oil on Linen 102cm x 153cm SOLD

Cinéma du Look Oil on Linen 72cm x 127cm $10,000

Motel, Pool, Vacancy Oil on Linen 92cm x 92cm SOLD

Thunderbird Café Oil on Linen 92cm x 92cm SOLD

Westwood Oil on Linen 56cm x 98cm $5,500

Midnight Cowboy Oil on Linen 62cm x 97cm $5,500

Yellow Cab Oil on Board 61cm x 61cm $3,950

Sunrise Inn Oil on Linen 51cm x 51cm SOLD

Yellow Cab Study Oil on Board 40cm x 40cm $2,000

Caddy Oil on Board 31cm x 41cm $1,900

Robert Redford Oil on Linen 30cm x 30cm SOLD

Soledad Oil on Board 21cm x 30cm Framed SOLD

Le Mystere Oil on Board 18cm x 31cm Framed SOLD

Vintage Oil on Board 20cm x 28cm Framed $1,700

The Golf Course Oil on Board 20cm x 20cm Framed $1,600

Arlene Oil on Board 20cm x 20m Framed SOLD

Miranda Oil on Board 15cm x 21cm Framed $1,500

Rear View Mirror Oil on Board 15cm x 21cm Framed $1,500

Sunset Boulevard Oil on Board 13cm x 18cm Framed $1,500

Libre Study Oil on Board 14cm x 14cm Framed $1,500

Introducing Steve Rosendale

Nostalgia and atmospheric drama are captured with a gripping reality in the new collection Cinéma du Look by Steve Rosendale.

The seemingly simple photographic realism leads you into an engaging narrative whilst the cinematographic lighting enhances the true essence of the moment. It’s impossible not to fall into the glamour of a bygone era that hints of a vague recollection of vintage film and memories past.

The subjects alone do not tell the whole story, it’s the carefully considered palette with enhancing light effects that adds the final magical impact.

A Steve Rosendale artwork is more than a painting, it is a doorway into the realms of remembrance, a trigger for past times, escapism with a hint of glamour.

Karen Beardsley Gallery Director

The Gallery Eumundi 6/32 Hastings Street Laguna on Hastings Noosa Heads QLD 4567 art@thegalleryeumundi.com.au www.thegalleryeumundi.com.au @thegalleryeumundi

Directors Karen Beardsley +61 400 716 553 Steve Beardsley +61 400 716 526