Rainer Fetting - Los Angeles Surfscapes by -

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162mm x 224mm x 13mm

Pages: 80

Surfers, and not the Internet kind, compose the majority of Rainer Fettings latest group of paintings, set amid the sunny environs of Venice Beach, California (in contrast to his more typical urban subjects). Surfing as a subject of art has made a comeback worthy of Brian Wilsons Smile, as seen in Catherine Opies photographs and Robert Longos recent paintings, among others. Fettings thick paint applied in simple adjacent lines flirts with abstraction but also conveys the power of waves, with matchstick-bodied surfers at natures mercy. At other times, single firgures balancing on boards playfully allude to Botticellis GÇ£The Birth of VenusGÇ¥ and Dufy-esque views from a beachside hotel capture California colors in a testament to the painters versatility. And whats more Californian than a sunset--over a car?