edwardpovey
TWINS
Edward Povey
2010 - 2011
Oil on linen
72 x 50 inches
Signed and dated upper left
In the artist's own collection
This major painting has an ominous and inscrutable quality, and through the process of being painted - was successively reduced in complexity, removing three additional figures which stood beside the table, on either side of the flying man. Matt Curtis, the powerful mayor's assistant for Austin, Texas modeled for the flying man or angel, who hovers and appears to indicate the fighting children darkly.
In Povey's usual manner, the twins have impassively erotic poses, and the artist suggests that:: "perhaps the human soul is like these twins: hard-wired for desire, and also for battle." He maintains that the hallway with the door ajar, creates a third element - filled with shadowy possibility, producing a triangle: the angel, the twins, and the door ajar. Boxes of crockery also stand around as if an event just ended, and "the party is over".