Blindman’s Buff 1988
Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt – Art Contemporain, Paris (FRANCE)
Blindman’s Buff was painted around the narrative of a single painting: Francisco Goya’s “Blind Man’s Buff” (1791). Painting in the context of European revolution, Goya shows us the aristocracy engaged in a childish game of Blindman’s Buff, choosing deliberate blindness to the struggles surrounding them. In my series, what one sees and what one refuses to look at are portrayed in moments of extreme discomfort in contemporary mise en scènes.
The Blindman’s Buff series (with catalogue) was exhibited in a traveling show that crossed Canada in 1991: Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, AB), Gallery 1.1.1. (Winnipeg, MB), The Stride Gallery, (Calgary, AB), Mount St Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax, NS) and Galerie Michel Tétreault (Montréal, QC).
“With these paintings, Scott enters willingly into the partial blindness of the glance. Henceforth, there will be no gaze in viewing or in technique. Representation leaves the space of genre painting, and with rich semantic interference, begins to visualize a symbolic life on which all of the figures in Blindman’s Buff are built.” Lorne Falk