Roy T. Durrant

at Art World Gallery

October Place

October - you still remember the summer : beach, sand and bikinis (a pair of white triangles on the black background in the center). There is a feast of colors around you : yellows, reds, browns, pinks, etc. But don't make a mistake - it is an agony before the death. You can see the black naked branches, barren ground. There is a dissonance between the lively wild colors of autumn and the melancholy you are feeling about the apparent decay and dying.

Sophie Von Hellerman

at Greene Naftali ( Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

September 01 (explosion)

Autumn is very beautiful. It is very colorful : orange, yellow, green, brown. It is bright, cheerful, sexy. And depressing. It is sad, because you know all this beauty is a preamble to emptiness, cold, gray skies, rains and winter. This is the cycle of nature  : everything dies to give room to new things. The autumn is a good reminder that the time is going by as a river with a strong stream. And we will have our September sooner or later.

Pierluigi De'Lutti

Pierluigi De'Lutti at Taglialatella Galleries

Autunno Canadese, 2010

Autumn in Canada. There is a lot of yellow, red and burgundy. There are days when the sun is out. You can see the bright light and blue sky, but it's very cold and windy(white undertones). It is getting dark pretty fast.The more the Nature is rough, tough and unforgiving, the more we are attracted to her.

Weekend Edition 13

Egon Schiele

Autumn Trees

This is a island of color in the sea of grey. The tiny patch of bright is guarding you from waves after waves of depression. But it's very fragile and couldn't hold for long. Between the cracks of bleakness you can see the chilling white of winter.The angular form of the patch show duality in your feelings. From one side you admire the colors. From another side, you understand that they are caused by demise.

Yang Yanping

Yang Yanping at Peter Findlay Gallery

Autumn Symphony

The beauty of decay. The autumn is very colorful. Yellow, red, blue sky(on sunny days). But don't fool yourself, it's a demise. It turns the colors into black and ugly. The brown overtones shows that you understand that it's a cycle of nature. It's necessary to shred the old, so the young can grow. But still it makes you sad. The bright background is not what you think. It is not nice. It's winter.