For his excellent new show at Lehmann Maupin, NYC, Sunset in My Heart (which was celebrated at the opening by turning the gallery into a raucous Japanese summer street festival with a musical performance by the artist dressed as a Japanese schoolgirl gone wrong), Mr. has returned to his expressive and experimental
roots as a young artist, incorporating abstract elements like graffiti, and using distressed and sullied canvases to accentuate his colorful anime - themed imagery.
For Sunset in My Heart, Mr. has returned to his expressive and experimental
roots as a young artist, incorporating abstract elements like graffiti, and using distressed and sullied canvases.
Not exact matches
We see it
as our great privilege, to be able to give these
younger artists a context
rooted in recent art history.
The Hoyland exhibition sees Hirst revisit his
roots as a curator, a role that helped launch his career and the careers of many of the group that collectively became known
as the
Young British
Artists (YBAs) when he conceived and organized the famous Freeze exhibition in London in 1988
These accomplished works by a
young artist are intriguing in part because of their aesthetic ambivalence,
rooted as they are both in a style of abstraction that emerged from Surrealism and the early works of
artists like Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella, both of whom systematically resisted the subjectivity and intimacy of painterly touch.