In this new body of work, Hirsig responds to the current global climate of crisis by striking a delicate balance between optimism and caution.
For Hirsig, looking ahead requires placing both personal and collective histories into dialogue with the present. In this new series of paintings, he revisits figures that have accompanied him throughout his life. Tentative and searching, complex and contradictory, these figures emerge through dynamic encounters between colour, gesture, thought and memory. Rather than completing one painting after another, Hirsig works on several canvases simultaneously: ideas overlap, dissolve, cross-pollinate, and resurface. Order emerges not through direct progression, but through the ongoing interplay of structure and chaos, logic and abstraction.
Hirsig hopes the same for our world. He believes that within every tension between opposites — good and evil, or right and wrong — a counter-movement or turning point will eventually emerge. Even as our interpretations of these oppositions may vary and divide us, he hopes that human conflict ultimately bends toward resolution.
Opening: December 5, 6-8pm
