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The paintings by Olivia Parkes (1989, London. Based in Berlin) have two souls, one more intimate and one more expressive and uncanny. Her elegant touch, expertly stylized, is reminiscent of West coast art from the Sixties and the Seventies, but strongly revisited.
What remains of it is the mix of underground style, contestation, surreal and lyric aspects. Parkes’ series of paintings pretend to create a narration, freezing it in suspended atmospheres. Her characters are at the same time specific and typical; her sceneries, often nocturnal, are mirroring reality while at the same time representing alternative places in which take refuge, between reassurance and subtle disquieting atmospheres. These works give birth to an anarchic version of American myth so strongly cultivated by cinema, literature and popular culture, while clearly defined shades of European culture are also included.