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Thursday 6 February

  • Koorosh Shishegaran: Revolution Through the Line

    The undulating lines of Koorosh Shishegaran transcend mere abstraction to become a universal language. His monumental canvases, emotional cartographies, create dizzying depths that draw us into a chromatic maelstrom where every curve tells a story.

  • Marc Quinn: Mortal Bodies and Immortal Souls

    Marc Quinn’s work questions the limits of the human body and identity through a radical exploration of living matter. His frozen blood sculptures and monumental marbles confront us directly with our existential fragility.

  • Dong Shaw-Hwei: Art as Silent Resistance

    In her striking works, Dong Shaw-Hwei merges Western Impressionism with Taoist philosophy to create paintings that transcend cultural boundaries. Her still lifes and garden scenes become profound meditations on existence itself.

  • Jia Aili: Prophet of the Digital Apocalypse

    Jia Aili creates apocalyptic worlds of visceral beauty where space and emptiness become characters in their own right. His monumental canvases depict mental landscapes where solitude is not an Instagram pose but an existential experience that chills you to the bone.

  • Yuan Fang: The Vibrant Dance of Painting

    In her monumental canvases, Yuan Fang crafts a universe where forms intertwine like dancers in a trance. Her abstract compositions transform contemporary anxiety into a visual choreography that challenges the conventions of modern painting.

  • Wade Guyton: The Poet of the Failing Printer

    Wade Guyton turns printing errors into visual poetry. His canvases, made with a simple inkjet printer, celebrate technological accidents, creating a new form of beauty where malfunction becomes an artistic signature.

  • Jesse Mockrin: The Surgeon of the Baroque

    Jesse Mockrin dissects European masterpieces with surgical precision, transforming their fragments into sharp commentaries on gender and power. Her virtuosic technique creates hauntingly androgynous figures that challenge our certainties about the representation of the body in art.

  • Richard MacDonald: The Sculptor of the Impossible

    Richard MacDonald transforms bronze into poetry of movement. His sculptures of athletes and dancers capture the precise moment when the body defies gravity, creating a dramatic tension that elevates his works beyond mere technical representation.

  • Peyton: The Troubling Beauty of a Turned Gaze

    Elizabeth Peyton transforms banality into transcendence through portraits where her subjects, consistently turned away from the viewer, embody a tension between presence and absence. Her unique painting technique, reminiscent of liquid honey, creates an ethereal aura oscillating between melancholy and glamour.

  • Tunga: The Alchemist Who Transformed Matter

    In his monumental installations, Tunga orchestrated transformations where lead, glass, hair, and crystals became the ingredients of a mystical recipe. His works are not illustrations of scientific theories but poetic explorations of matter.