SALON
An ode to the alternative salon exhibitions of the 18th-19th century that accelerated a break out against the bourgeois elitism, by giving way to emerging or outsider artists. Systematically creating a desire to change and explore channels of contemporary art and expression traditionally outside of the conservative, institutional mould.
Opening: Thursday 13 Jan 6.30-9pm
Regular Hours: Wed-Sat 12-6pm
Location: The Sunday Painter, 117-119 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1XA
SALON, presents works by a select group of artists who are traversing across a new terrain of contemporary painting.
An ode to the alternative salon exhibitions of the 18th-19th century that accelerated a break out against the bourgeois elitism, by giving way to emerging or outsider artists. Systematically creating a desire to change and explore channels of contemporary art and expression traditionally outside of the conservative, institutional mould.
Post pandemic we are experiencing a fresh dynamism and resurgence of this acceleration, witnessing a velocity of art that vocalises its responses to the current climate through painting. The salon in this instance, is the post pandemic landscape to understand and re-learn what we knew before.
The artists on show each offer a unique perspective of their world view, some came to painting through studies of science, architecture, neuro-ophthalmology and philosophy; others through a more traditional route. But each formulating and strengthening a new language around the existing pillars of painting.
The canons of traditionalist processes and ideologies are reformulated and injected with a new set of ingredients or cultural icons. What emerges are observational realities and subverted compositions that simultaneously mystify and open up our perceptions to the world around us. Mysticism, diasporic identities, hypersexualised, downloaded images, fluid landscapes, queer archetypes, commentaries on contemporary consumerism, transitional spaces coexist in a radical re-rendering of 21st-century painting. A new era.
Unlike the traditional salon hang, the works on display are pushed to the outer edges, diversifying the space and allowing a fluidity in not categorising or presenting works en masse, to let the works hold their own space.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Emanuel de Carvalho
Michael and Chiyan Ho
Motoko Ishibashi
Jack Jubb
Aaron Elvis Jupin
Juan Arango Palacios
Preston Pavlis
Kiki Wang
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