ORIGINAL MYTH – SERIES 1
22 Feb – 24 March 2019
Potocki Paterson
Level 1, 41-47 Dixon Street,
Wellington, New Zealand
Each of David Le Fleming’s paintings in this series forges a new god for today’s startling new political, environmental and social landscape.
These animal, humanoid and nebulous forms rule relatable concepts and concerns with rich symbolic resonance. In the same way some artists reverse-engineer naivety, Le Fleming reverse-engineers religion, offering arresting graven images replete with presence, pathos and humour.
Le Fleming’s painting reveres the surface. Appropriating found objects from tin cans to tractors, he uses their defects and typography to illuminate the passage of time.
oil on car bonnet
oil on tractor bonnet (assemblage also includes faux hair, plasticine, garden hose and drift wood)
oil, enamel and sand on canvas
490 x 606mm
oil on metal panels (diptych)
1200 x 1170mm
oil on stretched velvet
1520 x 1520mm
oil on tin can
210 x 175 x 250mm
oil on tin can
90 x 160mm
oil on tin can
145 x 100 x 35mm
oil on fiberglass panel
600 x 1220mm
oil on found metal decorative plate
430 x 430mm
oil on canvas
600 x 700mm
oil on wooden box
152 x 230 x 75mm
oil on underside of chair
370 x 365mm
oil on tin can
135 x 200 x 77mm
oil on wooden box
125 x 90 x 60mm
oil on wooden box
100 x 120 x 65mm
David Le Fleming 
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