P for Everything

Exposición / Kunsthalle Lissabon / R. José Sobral Cid, 9E / Lisboa, Portugal
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Cuándo:
11 sep de 2019 - 02 nov de 2019

Inauguración:
11 sep de 2019

Organizada por:
Kunsthalle Lissabon

Artistas participantes:
Charles Benjamin

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Pintura  Pintura en Lisboa 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Kunsthalle Lissabon presents P for Everything, an exhibition by Swedish artist Charles Benjamin featuring new paintings specifically devised for the gallery space. P for Everything stages a set of oversized canvases that depict life on an epic scale. From snapshots of a quiet interior life to aspirational hallmarks, the paintings expand motifs to the level of larger-­‐‑than-­‐‑life protagonists: a still life, an ethereal mobile, a calculator, a t-­‐‑shirt and pants, a house-­‐‑within-­‐‑a-­‐‑house, parquet flooring, a lawn. Hyper-­‐‑minimalist and proto-­‐‑naïve, the ochre line of the oil-­‐‑stick presents viewers with a lodestar to guide them through the space. In its oily tint, the paint is further redolent of the smeary logbook a mechanic may use to keep track of ongoing work on their engine. The canvases may then be viewed as a ledger, charting the shape and technicality of things in case one should forget. Like the logbook, the canvases act as both index and record for an ongoing process of material adjustment.

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