Blo fresh off his latest Group Exhibition Analog Y opens a new solo exhibition titled “Dreams have no titles” at Madrid’s Swinton Gallery. The new body of work follows his recent exploration in deconstructed and abstract figurative work. Below is the show statement and gives some insight into the concept behind the new exhibition.
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BLO is a modern day surgeon, born in France and based in Berlin he splices between Man Ray’s nudes and epic Renaissance Statues creating graceful, sacred figures enveloped in bursts of cosmic abstraction. Pinned in time like tropical butterflies to the canvas.
“The Assassination of Painting” is not the first quote to come to mind from Joan Miro when looking at BLO’s beautifully rendered stone, geometrical donned antiquities. Yet underneath the light graceful glow of the pastel hues, one finds gestures of imploding mythical paradises. Alongside futuristic postures of a statues stride or a reclining nude, a genderless hybrid of a long forgotten time, a time of cold tender passion.
THE FREEDOM TO PAINT IS THE FREEDOM TO DESTROY REALITY.
P.V.Rafferty
Swinton Gallery @ Swinton & Grant
C/ Miguel Servet 21
Madrid 28012
www.swintonandgrant.com
