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'Such is the Happiness to Come, Every Pain is Glad to Me Now (V)' (2007)

'Such is the Happiness to Come, Every Pain is Glad ' by Jonathan Alibone

36" x 36"

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'Such is the Happiness to Come, Every Pain is Glad to Me Now (V)' (2007)

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Oil, emulsion and collage on canvas
Signed by the artist

six foot person & work to scale

Jonathan Alibone

The paintings of Jonathan Alibone offer an exploration of the uncertainty and irreconcilable antagonisms inherent in our existence. They are populated with ghosts, and haunted by loss, unconsummated desire, and a nameless longing.

Alibone appropriates images and text from film, magazines, pulp fiction and pornography, setting them adrift from their original contextual moorings. When re-imagined and repositioned, they achieve a new potency, becoming ambivalent signifiers of moral emptiness, scepticism, and self disgust; the viewer is no longer a passive consumer but a voyeur and participant, implicated in a nihilistic culture’s obsessions, perversions, and hunger for meaning.

Currently based in the United Kingdom, Jonathan Alibone is a resident of The Artist's Sanctuary in Northampton, England, and is also one half of ‘Articulating History’ – an ongoing collaborative project created with fellow artist Alexander Small. In addition, Alibone is engaged in several other collaborative ventures, including a stop- motion animation and a graphic novel. He has exhibited widely and his work features in private collections in the UK, Europe, and North America.

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