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Jim Threapleton, Mutiny XI, 2019, Oil on wood panel
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Jim Threapleton, Mutiny XIV, 2019, Oil on wood panel
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Jim Threapleton, Mutiny XVI, 2019, Oil on hardboard
Exhibition
MUTINY
10 Jan 2020 – 23 Feb 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 20 Cross street
- London
England - N1 2BG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Angel, Highbury & Islington
- Essex Road
No 20 Arts is delighted to celebrate its third anniversary by presenting MUTINY, a solo exhibition of new works by Jim Threapleton. The exhibition marks significant development in Threapleton’s ongoing exploration of the abstract mark at the threshold of representation.
About
Featuring 30 works on linen, panel and paper, MUTINY gives title to a series of paintings that testify to the conflict between the artist’s authority and material resistance.
Having established an international profile as a filmmaker in the 2000s, working with a film in the abstract provoked a return to painting in 2009. The centre stage cinematic use of darkness and light in Threapleton’s work, therefore, comes as no surprise. Born from the tension between technical control and painterly misadventure his paintings exist in the realm of abstraction but without fully abandoning representation.
Expressionist improvisation animates a precarious pictorial territory that offers the spectator glimpses of compositions that reminisce Romantic and Baroque masterpieces, and their characteristic chiaroscuro.
