In the words of the artist, «Many of the paintings
depict dystopic scenes of conflict and shame.
Curator of Contemporary Art Reto Thüring leads a tour of the exhibition, featuring the artist's newest works, many of which
depict dystopic scenes of conflict and shame, commenting on the turbulent political atmosphere that followed in the wake of the 2016 US election.
Dunkerley, whose most recent solo show, Where Things Go at Joe Bar last year, was moored in obsessive compulsive wordplay, has illustrated a series of detailed gouache landscapes
depicting dystopic urban design and architecture, like a valley uniformly planted with vertiginously vertical high - rise apartment buildings (LeCorbusier Kundig).
Not exact matches
The images had a
dystopic vibe,
depicting fragments of architecture and deflated, almost comical, non-referential blob - like shapes.
From fractured faces to startling juxtapositions of objects within maze - like interior spaces, his work skims beyond the conventions of collage,
depicting alternative realities and
dystopic dreamscapes.