Simon Lee Gallery, London presents a group show “An Uncanny Likeness” organised by Franklin Melendez and Romain Dauriac through March 4, 2017. The show revisits the legacy of portrait painting, bringing together a diverse group of artists, whose practice revolves around the re-drawing of the figure. These artists pursue emotive distortion and stylistic idiosyncrasies that foreground painting’s relationship to the body. The resulting tableaux are thick with symbolic meaning, conjuring altered states and arcane visions that are as indebted to the virtuosic flourishes of Mannerist painters as the elastic possibilities of present day visualising techniques. The show teases out a historical link between a group of artists in the late 1980s and early 1990s - including Martin Wong and Katharina Wulff. This sheds light on a younger generation tackling similar questions of art historical lineage, queer pictorial space, viewer power relations and corporeal abstraction through a visual dialogue that is both playful and poignant.The exhibition is on view at 12 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DT, UKFor details, visit: www.simonleegallery.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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