Exhibition looks at highly stylized visual languages featuring the repeated figure
Keisuke Ishino, 2018, paper, coloured felt pen and sellotape sculptures, photo by Ellie Walmsley, courtesy of Flowers Gallery.
LONDON
.-Flowers Gallery presents Prismatic Minds, an exhibition looking at highly stylized visual languages featuring the repeated figure, curated by Jennifer Gilbert (Director of the Jennifer Lauren Gallery) and actor, writer, and co-presenter of art podcast Talk Art Russell Tovey.
Bringing together six mainly self-taught international artists, each with intensely personal and imaginative styles, Prismatic Minds presents a new discourse on the act of repetition and the desire to surround oneself with others, real or imagined. Original, raw and energetic, the works on view introduce a carnival of contemporary characters through repeated motifs that have recurred in the artists' work over many years. The exhibition questions the boundaries or limits of the repeated figure, exploring the deep-rooted personal compulsion to build a cast of characters through ideas of solidarity, family and companionship. Often theatrical or performative, and created without expectations from others, the paintings, drawings and sculptures of Prismatic Minds demonstrate practices of masterful storytelling and image-making.