Juan Ford
A memoir from the break of day 2010
oil on wood, steel fire extinguisher
37 x 59 x 59 cm
© Courtesy the artist, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne; Jan Manton Art, Brisbane; and Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
A memoir from the break of day 2010
oil on wood, steel fire extinguisher
37 x 59 x 59 cm
© Courtesy the artist, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne; Jan Manton Art, Brisbane; and Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
Juan Ford seeks to create new possibilities for realism in painting. His work for the Basil Sellers Art Prize exhibition focuses on the concept of anamorphic projection, a distortion of perspective employed by advertisers in major sporting events. A product name or logo is painted directly onto the playing field with extreme distortion, designed to be captured by high-angled cameras and presented to television audiences. A recent painting, Stretching the truth, incorporates this technique to depict a bird’s-eye view of a game in play at a stadium—only to reveal (on closer inspection) something unexpected.