Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles is ready to unveil a brand new solo exhibition by British artist George Rouy, operating from February 18 by way of June 1. Entitled The Bleed, Half II, the present comes because the second act of the rising star’s London presentation and can see a brand new suite of compositions in his distorted, fleshy signature, increasing on a research of “human mass, multiplicity and motion.”
The exhibition attracts its title from Rouy’s idea of “the bleed,” which describes how figures and voids coalesce on canvas, leading to an oozing circulation between types. This concept is deepened by “the surrounds,” zones the place flesh and bodily properties meet forces of mass, quantity and entropy with out mercy.
With faces enfolded, blurred or eliminated altogether, the artist challenges the ability of photographic and screen-based seize, shifting focus to the physique as a regularly reimagined and redefined by way of a relationship with the world at massive. “In works characterised by a particular dynamism, Rouy captures important experiences of up to date life – need and vexation, the urge to attach annoyed by alienation – to handle emotional extremities in a globalized, technologically-driven age,” the gallery wrote.
Along with The Bleed, Half II, Rouy may even current the U.S. premier of BODYSUIT, a reside efficiency by the artist and famend choreographer Sharon Eyal, in Los Angeles from February 20–23.
Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles
901 East third Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90013
