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These paintings are modern expressionist figurative acrylic on canvas pieces derived from obscure
moments in cinema. Erich Kuersten is a film critic and writer who brings a deep reading to the nature of persona, time, and
mise-en-scene to his work, and these original acrylic on canvas works are an extension of that.
A film is made up of still images, and a painting is considered the same, but Kuersten strives
to capture the movement inherent in the stillness. "Still" is an illusion created by our eyes and our clinging to the idea
of permanence. Kuersten taps into the primal, infinite forces and sources of constantly moving energy that defines the real
within the imaginary. We are all spinning madly through space, affixed to the side of a giant ball by gravity-- that is the
reality we try to avoid by going to the movies in the first place. In these paintings the illusory, the real, the symbolic,
everything comes crashing together in a big messy splatter.
--- Art Worlds, 2007
Jaws - Widescreen (2004, Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 40 ins) SOLD
Brief Encounter (2004, Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 34 ins) SOLD
Nightmare Alley (2005, Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 40 ins) SOLD
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