Kasmin opens group exhibition: New Old Histories
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Histories are created, disseminated, and passed down, but they are also altered, forgotten, and re-shaped.
Featuring artists Charlie Billingham, Alexander Harrison, Andrea Joyce Heimer, Esteban Jefferson, and Tanya Merrill, New Old Histories showcases artists who variously co-opt, critique, and upend conventions of historical painting, and in the process provide a lens through which to view the world today.
CHARLIE BILLINGHAM
Lives and works in London, UK
Billingham s boisterous paintings, screens, and interior installations appropriate imagery from the satirical prints of Regency England. Men in undone formalwear and powdered wigs are disconnected from their original contexts so that the absurd, comic, and grotesque become snapshots of bestial inclinations. The artists technical approach focuses on pigment, texture, and surface, using both oil and acrylic paint on surfaces of polyester,
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