NC Smith - Untitled

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge led to a complete rejection of any visual language, resulting in the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to the gestural component, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the material from which their works are composed.

NC Smith's Informal art is fundamentally symbolic. His canvases always take the form of a theory of symbols, elements of an unknown, enigmatic, and mysterious language. NC Smith's canvases resemble relics from ancient civilizations, their archaic quality further emphasized by his use of raw jute canvas. In NC Smith's language, therefore, the principles of Informal art, followed through the use of a sign alphabet, are combined with an aesthetic of the object, of the artifact of industrial civilization, reclaiming a waste material from consumer society like jute canvas. Formally, all these elements converge in balanced compositions, both in the arrangement of the signs and in the refined chromatic harmonies.

As we can see from his works, the artist NC Smith stands out for the development of an original informal sign system which also includes experimentation with unusual materials such as raw jute canvas.

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