Exhibition

Kaoli Mashio: 19.20.21

4 Dec 2021 – 19 Feb 2022

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10:00 – 17:00
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10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:00
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10:00 – 17:00
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10:00 – 17:00

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19.20.21 is an exhibition of paintings made during the coronavirus pandemic. It will be the third exhibition at CASSIUS&Co., and will open at 63 Kinnerton Street, London, on 4th December 2021, running until 19th February, 2022.

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19.20.21 is an exhibition of paintings made during the coronavirus pandemic. It will be the third exhibition at CASSIUS&Co., and will open at 63 Kinnerton Street, London, on 4th December 2021, running until 19th February, 2022. 19.20.21 follows the two solo exhibitions A Door Like A Wall and A Bigger Door Like A Wall, both held in Düsseldorf in 2021, at Bloom and Salon des Amateurs respectively.

During an extended stay in rural Japan in 2019, as the coronavirus was first beginning to emerge, Mashio had embarked on a series of paintings based on the layers of  galvanised steel plates that were common in local architecture. She admired the material’s enduring strength in harsh conditions, and the beauty of the weather’s impression on it. Though by no means an exclusively abstract painter, the series of works wanted further development when she returned to Germany, which the artist found herself with plenty of time to pursue as the country moved into its first period of lockdown. Somehow the unintelligibility of the early stages of the pandemic, indeed, its lack of actual images, found expression in the insuperable, connecting forms developing in Mashio’s work, which were both like thin, strong walls, and like fingers reaching out to each other.

As 2020 wore on, a gap, or at least, some kind of liminal space, began to appear in the paintings. Something in them was leaking through and out, growing between the bars of eye-twisting vertical lines. And in the most recent works space has begun to open up, the scope of the paintings broadening into a bright sky blue that speaks of newness and hope. One of the best things about Contemporary art is to see what artists do in a moment that feels seismic, when we know that something important is happening but don’t have the distance of history to analyse it. 19.20.21 is one of these exhibitions, a painterly and poetic response to a period that will not be forgotten lightly.

Kaoli Mashio was born in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, in 1976. In 2004 she moved to Europe to pursue a career as an artist, ultimately graduating from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2011. Her work has been presented in group exhibitions across Japan and Europe, and solo exhibitions of her work have been held in London and in Düsseldorf.

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Fraser Brough

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Kaoli Mashio

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