New show of Ken Currie: Immortality at Flowers Gallery: 82 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DP. Private view 7th April 6-8pm. Public opening 8th April - 21st May.
This exhibition of new work by Ken Currie can be viewed as a meditation upon the nature of portraiture itself, a series of claustrophobic and imposing paintings of fictitious power figures. The subjects while contrived are of a caste found in traditional commissioned portraiture.
Here however, the artist is not reliant on flattering and kowtowing to his sitters.Currie invites us to a performance of players preening as they grasp for status, unaware in their arrogance of the cadaverous figures that they in truth portray.
Ken Currie
New show of Ken Currie: Immortality at Flowers Gallery: 82 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DP. Private view 7th April 6-8pm. Public opening 8th April - 21st May.
ReplyDeleteThis exhibition of new work by Ken Currie can be viewed as a meditation upon the nature of portraiture itself, a series of claustrophobic
and imposing paintings of fictitious power figures. The subjects while contrived are of a caste found in traditional commissioned
portraiture.
Here however, the artist is not reliant on flattering and kowtowing to his sitters.Currie invites us to a performance of players preening as they grasp for status, unaware in their arrogance of the cadaverous figures that they in truth portray.