David Spiller - In My Heart
Year: 2016
Medium: Acrylic and pencil on stitched canvas panels
Hand signed on verso
Size: 28.5 x 27.5 in (72 x 70 cm)
Provenance: From the artist's Estate
According to the Artist
Spiller often mentioned that, like a movie director, he wanted to be free to “do” what he wanted -- not to be typecast, but able to use different genres: a western, a comedy, a cartoon, a musical. These seminal late works were Spiller’s love stories. In In My Heart, he ‘neurosurgically’ sewed together raw canvas panels containing faint dots blotted from earlier paintings. These time-capsule swatches combine with the bold, hard-hitting black text, overlaid with fresh painted geometric dots and squares to add order and color. The final stage of the process was to write the things he wanted to say, heartfelt lyrics such as, ‘I will keep you from the dark’, ‘Take a walk on the wild side,’ and ‘Peace’. This painting is shouting his message out and conveying the urgency he sensed, ‘One love… One life’… from the U2 song.