Paul Laffoley, one of our favorite artists here at Bottlerocketscience, has died today. He will be sorely missed.
From
Kent Fine Art's email:
(b. Cambridge,
August 14, 1935 - d. Boston, November 16, 2015)
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The visionary artist and luminary, Paul Laffoley, has died
today after a long battle with congestive heart failure. He had an extraordinary
grasp of multiple fields of knowledge compulsively pursing interests that often
lead him into uncharted territory. His complex theoretical constructs were
uniquely presented in highly detailed mandala-like canvases largely scaled to
Fibonacci's golden ratio. While an active participant in numerous speculative
organizations including his own Boston Visionary Cell since the early 70s, his
work began to attract an increasing following in his late career with shows at
the Palais de Tokyo (2009), Hamburger Bahnhoff (2011), Hayward Gallery, London,
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2013). The
first book on Laffoley's oeuvre was The Phenomenology of
Revelation published by Kent Fine Art in 1989, followed by several
subsequent publications beginning with his first retrospective organized by the
Austin Museum of Art (1999). Forthcoming in March of 2016, the University of
Chicago Press will be releasing the long awaited book entitled The
Essential Paul Laffoley. He was a kind and generous giant, and
he will be sorely missed by all of us.
If you have built castles in
the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be .
. .
Henry
David Thoreau
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