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Brett Weir: Lunar Paintings
Weir’s paintings might occasionally reference those of others—such as Gerhard Richter’s abstracts or James McNeill Whistler’s nocturnes—and recall the same quest for representation pared back to the essentials, but Weir’s vision is singular and unique. In his paintings we find a world of dreams, longing and desire, lit from an internal source. That each of Weir’s paintings is the exact proportions of a doorway is no accident. Each panel is an aperture onto another plane. For Weir, the door is not a vague philosophical concept, but an actual, physical opening into another world. The flickering lights and lunar mists that drift through these openings are but a microcosm of a larger universe. To describe the paintings simply as ‘abstract’ would miss the point entirely, for they are literal and accurate representations of a very real phenomena that just happens to be invisible to the human eye. This is phenomena perceived through the soul rather than the retina—Weir becomes the seer who guides us into and through this place.
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Weir’s paintings might occasionally reference those of others—such as Gerhard Richter’s abstracts or James McNeill Whistler’s nocturnes—and recall the same quest for representation pared back to the essentials, but Weir’s vision is singular and unique. In his paintings we find a world of dreams, longing and desire, lit from an internal source. That each of Weir’s paintings is the exact proportions of a doorway is no accident. Each panel is an aperture onto another plane. For Weir, the door is not a vague philosophical concept, but an actual, physical opening into another world. The flickering lights and lunar mists that drift through these openings are but a microcosm of a larger universe. To describe the paintings simply as ‘abstract’ would miss the point entirely, for they are literal and accurate representations of a very real phenomena that just happens to be invisible to the human eye. This is phenomena perceived through the soul rather than the retina—Weir becomes the seer who guides us into and through this place.
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