He gives the impression of wanting to tidy everything up and clear away
any unnecessary visual ballast. Meticulously and with surgical
precision Richard Galpin breaks down the fine top layer of large-scale
architectural photographs into geometrical forms and lines. Some of
their elements are removed entirely, leaving the white bottom layer of
the photographic paper, while others remain in place and merge to form
a visionary architectural construct.
Cluster XXX (Angelosopolis), 2007

Richard Galpin abstracts photographs of urban spaces and architecture,
and transforms them into graphic fragments with a three-dimensional
appearance, in pattern-like surfaces which reflect the formal
repetition and dynamism of big-city architecture. Although formally
Richard Galpin moves further and further away from the original
photograph with every work he creates, the removal of many of the
principal pictorial elements often highlights the perspectives and
pictorial composition of the original photo.
The resulting spaces and structural clusters then appear like extracts from a reality which is visually entirely overloaded.
Cluster XXI (Dendropolis), 2007
The resulting spaces and structural clusters then appear like extracts from a reality which is visually entirely overloaded.












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