TWO COATS OF PAINT
Jay Senetchko: A tale of two empires
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Contributed by Dion Kliner / Looking from painting to painting at “The Course of a Distant Empire,” Jay Senetchko’s fine solo exhibition at Winsor Gallery in Vancouver, you might begin to recall the distinctly dissonant percussion in Tom Waits’s cheerfully ominous song as he plaintively asks, “What’s he building in there?” And then, “Where in its course does this empire exist? In which direction is it moving?” How does Senetchko mean that direction to be understood? Do the paintings – The Fire Sermon, A Game of Chess, The Burial of the Dead, Death by Water, and finally What the Thunder Said – represent a state of falling from, or building towards? Is their message a pessimistic descent into a dark age, or an optimistic recovery from catastrophe and dawn of a bright and sustainable new future?
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