Jason Gibilaro - Sheep Divide

Jason Gibilaro

Jason Gibilaro’s pictures transport us into familiar landscapes, townscapes and peoplescapes in which the stark realities of the world and our bizarre stamp on it ring out with a deafening cezanne-esque lucidity. Iceland’s financial meltdown resonates with CCTV watchin’ a Brixton duck-pond, whilst London’s Art World populates the scenery with it’s not altogether normal approach to things.

Gibilaro is a modern social documentarian, documenting the human condition from a fly-on-the-wall perspective, the cast of the scenes saying enough about themselves to need any more filtering. The poles of subject matter seem an extreme contrast, the unusual goings-on of the London Art world set against the brutality of modern globalisation, however the link is there: human behaviour and its multifaceted oddness, whether sinister or amusing. These paintings in their colourful way, if nothing else, bear testimony to that.