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Jon Thompson 1936 - 2016 BACK
Exhibition
Jon Thompson
23 Nov 2018 – 25 Jan 2019
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 31 St. George Street
- London
England - W1S 2FJ
- United Kingdom
From 23 November 2018 to 25 January 2019, S|2 London will present a solo exhibition of works by British artist Jon Thompson in gallery one.
About
Jon Thompson was an esteemed critic, teacher and curator who masterminded the transformation of Goldsmiths College in the 1980s into a petri dish for the fermentation of the YBA group. Yet unbeknownst to many, Thompson was also an artist in his own right. The exhibition at S|2 will highlight Thompson’s artistic practice in large-scale photography and abstract painting, and its complex relationship with his deep and prolonged study of aesthetics and art history.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a major publication featuring previously unseen archival material, a newly commissioned essay by Michael Bracewell, as well as many of Thompson’s own writings. In both Thompson’s artwork and writing, language itself is called into question constantly. The book and exhibition invite the reader to dip into Thompson’s labyrinthine network of questions and investigations concerning the nature of art itself.
