Roger Ackling: Light and Wooden Pieces

With the style of impressionists, who directly captured light and color from sceneries and reflected them on their works, Roger Ackling (Isleworth, United Kingdom, 1947) has spent over forty years improving a method in which working “in the raw” turns out to be the key element, and it can be noticed in each of his works.

Through a small magnifying glass, Ackling concentrates sunlight on the pieces of wood he finds during his walks, in a sort of experiment that has been repeated too many times and has become an exact science. The creation process alludes to the ritual on art, and the original concept of artists, who reflect their essence in every artwork, and give existence and character to material elements.

In spite of the mystic features of this process, the results can also be evaluated as games with basic forms, capricious abstractions with minimal tone.

An exhibition with nearly thirty of these pieces is going to be inaugurated on October 31 at Elvira Gonzalez Gallery in Madrid, Spain. The artist will participate in the opening ceremony, at 19 hrs.

Elvira Gonzalez Gallery
c/ General Castaños, 3. 28004-Madrid

Source: Press release