75 Degrees Anglesea
Apple of My Isle
Assault
Axed
Back to Work
Black Brook
Bored Cezanne
Clandestine
Cracked
Dino
Floater
Framed
Hey Dude
Homage to Framers
Hudson River # 2
Hydrodermic
I Told You Not to Shake...
IN New York
Landscape with a Point
Newborough
The Next Step
Newport Gardener
Nothing Is As It Streams
Objects In the Mirror
Ogunquit

Painting Newborough

Past His Peak
Phantom Bird
Phantasmagorical Bird
Renoir's Bra
Right Branch of the River
Riptide
Sailing on the Ribble
Secondhand Smoke

String Gogh
String Theory
Tolo Splashdown
Uninvited Guest
UP
Visiting the In-Laws
You Can Paint Ducks

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With a serious concern about our environment Win Zibeon has painted a forest and mountain scene, devastated by an axe, an lake ripped in two, a statement about our beaches, a photo-real ocean scene with a crack severing the vista, black ink spots marring the landscape, a landscape hovering over the real thing, a reminder that the earth was here before humankind, and a couple of the Swiss alps: a mannikin traversing and and dinosaur leaving  When you look up all you can see is sky bordered by trees and there is a shadow over the river.  And what about that New York pigeon?
To acknowledge the Hudson River School he has painted a winter sunset with the blue river spilling out of a paint tube.
His father-in-law told him that it would be a good idea to paint ducks.  And a bird landed in front of his painting and another bird flew over the antilandscape. He imagines a sailboat on the river
Newport Gardener shows red suspenders draped on a Newport landscape, Back to Work looks as though someone has hung a coat hanger with a tie on a bucolic landscape,
He has made  optical illusions out of a beach,  paint dripping over the North Wales seacoast and from a favorite waterfall.
He shows a Maine beach with a very real rock suspended before it. A carpenter steps through the landscape.
He plays with our ideas of reality by painting frames within frames within frames.
You will notice that he seems obsessed with frames.
He toys with our perceptions and uses shaped canvases to show us an odd lake, a landscape hidden under a silk skirt, a rocky Greek coastline, a sheer Greek coastline and the Hudson River.
He jokes about visiting his in-laws and a familiar turtle.

The great Impressionist painters don't escape his teasing.  He has painted a humorous tribute to Renoir, a comment on Monet's smoking, a strung Van Gogh, and a Bored Cezanne.  

Win Zibeon calls these realist paintings, "anti-landscapes". People say all the time: "Where do you get these ideas?  Why don’t you paint landscapes?
Landscapes are everywhere. These paintings are his reaction to two things - how we are treating the earth and what he considers artistic blandness.
 

"Other paintings by Zibeon are from his Anti-Landscape series. In these works, the artist attempts to unhinge the viewer’s attachment to safe and predictable visual reality. We can’t really experience beauty if our vision is filtered by habitual response and with this in mind, Zibeon with characteristic humor, attacks his own landscapes with a badly aimed dart here, a well placed hanger and tie there. Again illusion and counter illusion are all skillfully handpainted. Clearly the artist owes a debt to the great Surrealist Magritte, who famously inscribed on a painting of a pipe “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” (this is not a pipe). However, Zibeon has made this rich vocabulary of illusion and allusion his own…saying in his own way that “Ceci n’est pas a view of the Hudson.”"
FROM THE PUTNAM COUNTY NEWS & RECORDER 12/5/07

 

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