Exhibition
Adam Fenton's Painting Club
21 Aug 2015 – 23 Aug 2015
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Second Floor Studios & Arts
- Mellish Ind Estate, Harrington Way
- London
- SE18 5NR
- United Kingdom
Adam Fenton’s Painting Club brings together 13 contemporary painters who share an interest in a figurative painterly language. The exhibition has been curated to create a dialogue between works and to form the basis for a discussion.
About
MOMA curator Laura Hoptman recently claimed that contemporary painting is in a state of atemporality, reflecting our current cultural moment. At a time where “all eras seem to exist at once”, any historical genre, stylistic language or motif can be adopted by the contemporary painter.
Adam Fenton’s Painting Club posits the idea that ‘contemporary painting’ as it is often presented is indeed nothing but a genre in itself, recognizable by very distinct formal elements. And often it is determined in so many ways by the intermediary segment of the art world – curators, collectors, gallerists – rather than by the artists themselves.
Thus, the exhibition wishes to address the notion of painting in terms of ‘personality’, as opposed to ‘contemporary’. Each artist in the exhibition demonstrates a personal passion for a unique subject matter, process or style that goes far deeper than just illustrating the current critical discourse. Hopefully, the exhibition will thereby contribute to pointing to the very rich breadth of painting today and a discussion of the diverse and interlapping elements of it.
Ben Clarke
David Dellagi
Mark Edmonds
Adam Fenton
Callum Green
Fiona Long
Paula MacArthur
Benjamin Prosser
Matthew Randle
Mark Sheeky
Hideatsu Shiba
Dovilė Šimonytė
Eleanor Watson