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Edward Bowen - biography click here
CONSIGNMENT of Limited Edition Film Festival Prints, titled Cobo and Cobo Business.
In2Art is pleased to be working with Edward Bowen, the 2009 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival Artist, in the sale and distribution of the Limited Edition Festival Prints, titled Cobo and Cobo Business.
Edward ˜Eddie" Bowen is one of Trinidad and Tobago's recognized artists and in order for you to get to know Edward and how the works were created, we present his Biography and Artist Statement.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The first attempts to deal with this commission was an exercise in recall as I mentally went through a list of many possibilities associated with the idea of film, a film festival, the audiences and many other design brief factors which I felt would influence the design and a satisfactory result.None of these directions rang any bells so I went to phase two with the inspiration process and decided to relax my mind and eyes and allow a signal to come through.
- There lives by me a family or group of corbeaux (cobo); as far as I can make out, they've been there for a few generations unperturbed by the various movements of my family and others. My recent arrival last year was of no business to them as they seemed to continue their routines without any noticeable alarm or care. In the mornings, every morning, good weather permitting, about 20 of them scattered on the lawn, some with their wings extended drying, some sitting, some just standing there. (It seems as if) This is a regular thing before they begin the day looking for carrion carcasses and endless flight exercises catching currents that come off the bay and cliff, sometimes the cobo goes flying for the sake of it, soaring upwards to thousands of feet, why I don't know.
- It was the eyes and head that caught my attention, the hyper sensitivity and trigger-like senses, ever ready; I could sense how they felt threatened by man who sees them as ugly, dirty and smelly. The observations continued for a few weeks and my fascination grew, in the proximity of neighbourly relations I found myself obsessed as much as being the observer.
- Who became enigma, monochrome outcast, water, the winged janitor moving between dimensions of sky, sea and dirt, circling, waiting for life processes to end so they can go to work. Cobo was the anti-hero and the unexpected messenger nervous and insecure yet ultimately belonging and ever present, the feeling was to bring that identity forward and articulate a silent graceful conversation. Despite the nervous scratching and texturing of the image, cobo emerged glancing over her shoulder as if caught in a dance flight moment, relaxed, serene, noble and luminescent.
Cobo, ubiquitous overseer, peerer, like the cameraman unseen; more and more cobo became a lens, the embodiment and symbol of a continuous alternative view, the outsider, the artist, somewhat misunderstood on the periphery yet simultaneously dead centre to our senses in place and time, transformer and witness.
In the New York studio, Master Printer Luther at Axelle Fine Arts in Brooklyn, separating layers of scratches and suggesting the final skin of iridescence "to bring the form forward" and adding the extra subtle sheen and glistening of water and salt on oily black feathers.
The small print, Cobo Business, a bonus conversation in what would have been wasted space in the printing process, 3 cobos about to negotiate the spoils of 2 dead fish.
Images of both limited edition prints are on top of this page and also can be viewed at our Aldegonda Park Gallery.
The prices are as follows:
Cobo – TTD2,500.000
Cobo Business – TTTD1,000.00
Please contact In2Art at (868) 624-4369 or in2artltd@gmail.com to order print(s) or come into the Gallery at 201 Aldegonda Park, 7 St. Ann's Road, St. Ann's.
We hope that you will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to own a work of art by Edward Bowen, one of Trinidad and Tobago's recognized artist.
