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Massimo De Carlo presents a new painting series of faces by Rob Pruitt
Rob Pruitt: Masks. Massimo De Carlo, Milan/Belgioioso. From December 1, 2020 to January 22, 2021. Installation View: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong.
MILAN
.-Massimo De Carlo presents Masks, Rob Pruitts 9th exhibition with the gallery and first solo show at the Palazzo Belgioioso space in Milan. Pruitts exhibition centres on a new painting series of faces, initially conceived as props for a dance performance that never was. The body of work began with the smaller canvases which are scaled to the human face and were to be held by the dancers as masks. Reimagining a project that began a decade ago of quick gestures over gradient fields, Pruitt continues his pursuit of depicting the complexities of personality and emotion through these simple means. With these new paintings, the facial gestures are cut into the canvas with a razor - destructive and creative at the same time,