The artist manipulates cheap scanners to generate a unique way of painting rather than capturing an image, the scanner creates an impression of the ambient light within the artist’s studio, bearing the abstract visual trace of the atmosphere surrounding the machine. The artist explores ways in which digital facets of our existence can be manifested and reimagined in the flesh of the physical object. Paul Kneale is interested in how the world is constantly translated into a digital language which simplifies, trivialises and depersonalises content and the people it addresses. Most recently with Artuner his works were exhibited as part of the online exhibition STUDIOSCAPES: 2021 and in 2022 he created a series of NFTs in collaboration with LiveArtX. Works by Kneale have been included in the exhibition Peindre la Nuit at Centre Pompidou Metz (October 2018), the Rubell Family Collection and at the prestigious Thetis Gardens in the Arsenale Novissimo (Venice), in a group exhibition on view during La Biennale di Venezia 57°. In Autumn 2019 he unveiled Flat Earth Visa, a site-specific installation for the hillscape surrounding the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene (Piedmont, Italy). 1986, Canada) received his MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art (London) in 2011 and has been working closely with Artuner since early 2015. The petroleum-like colours and expressive shapes giving movement and depth to the canvas derive by what Kneale defines as ‘productive misuse’ of his scanners: by breaking and overworking them, they each yield different, characteristic effects, which the artist employs as his own unique set of paintbrushes. His series Sfumato, exhibited as part of Compression in Brussels, Belgium, references the traditional painterly practice of the sfumato in the smoky shades of grey blending on the canvas.Ī nod to his earlier American Night series, and Hollywood production techniques, the dark palette of the Sfumato works originates from being created in extremely bright light conditions. The conceptual evolution of the atmospheric qualities of the space as perceived by the digital (the scanner) into tangible canvases reverses the shrinkage of the real in a repetitive binary code through digitization. His scanner paintings are translations of several atmospheric impressions captured with a domestic scanner. Paul Kneale is a visionary and an interpret of the constant flow of data and information exchanged in our new, digitised, era.

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