A New Geology_Duncansby, 2022, white pencil / acrylic / panel (4 parts), 180 x 245 cm.
For this drawing, in white pencil on a rust-coloured panel, of the rockface Simon Benson photographed standing on a ledge above the north sea, while photographing a sea-stack, near Duncansby, Scotland. Simon Benson combined several photos to create a non-existent landscape of rock structure. A new geology. The zoomed-in detailed drawing, recreates the in-your-face closeness of the rock face of the place itself.
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Untitled (as yet), white pencil on acrylic on panel, 145 x 100 cm. In early 2022, just after the last covid lockdown Simon Benson showed a series of drawings in a solo exhibition 'On Reflection' at Phoebus Rotterdam. The drawings consisted of imagined reflections in water of certain houses which did not actually stand next to water. Simon Benson also imagined reflections of certain iconic artworks. These images of water reflections referenced the flood of the covid epidemic which we had been undergoing during two years. Simon Benson imagined it as an inundation which threatens to submerge everything, streets and buildings, museum spaces.
The same theme we find in this largescale drawing in white pencil on a rust-coloured painted panel. The drawing is a reflection of a reflection, based on the composition of Michelangelos Last Judgement in the Sixtinian Chapel. It is also a drawing about the act of drawing itself. 3200.