Jan Senbergs: Heat - Fire - Smoke
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few Australian painters command the raw, elemental power of Jan Senbergs, whose work has long occupied a unique space between abstraction and urban mythology. Heat - Fire - Smoke is the exhibition catalogue for his 2015 solo show at Niagara Galleries Melbourne, presenting a concentrated body of work that channels the ferocity of fire, industrial heat, and billowing smoke into visceral, large-scale paintings that feel both ancient and urgently contemporary. Senbergs, a Latvian-born Melbourne artist and one of Australia's most respected figurative-abstract painters, has spent decades building a visual language rooted in memory, landscape, and the darker forces of human industry. This catalogue chronicles that vision in its most combustive form, documenting works that blur the boundary between the elemental and the apocalyptic. For collectors and admirers of Australian modernism, this slim but potent volume raises a question that lingers long after the final page: what remains when everything burns?
Author: Jan Senbergs
Format: Paperback
Published: 2015, Niagara Galleries Melbourne
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few Australian painters command the raw, elemental power of Jan Senbergs, whose work has long occupied a unique space between abstraction and urban mythology. Heat - Fire - Smoke is the exhibition catalogue for his 2015 solo show at Niagara Galleries Melbourne, presenting a concentrated body of work that channels the ferocity of fire, industrial heat, and billowing smoke into visceral, large-scale paintings that feel both ancient and urgently contemporary. Senbergs, a Latvian-born Melbourne artist and one of Australia's most respected figurative-abstract painters, has spent decades building a visual language rooted in memory, landscape, and the darker forces of human industry. This catalogue chronicles that vision in its most combustive form, documenting works that blur the boundary between the elemental and the apocalyptic. For collectors and admirers of Australian modernism, this slim but potent volume raises a question that lingers long after the final page: what remains when everything burns?