Rock-hard Aura and the Last Explorer

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 GRIMM is pleased to announce Rhys Coren’s solo exhibition Rock-hard Aura and the Lost Explorer at our New York gallery space. This marks this British artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, and Coren’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Presented is a single-channel animation and a group of paintings.

Rhys Coren’s pulsating visual language spans across a variety of different media. Over the last few years, his multidisciplinary practice has abstracted mathematical structure, blending and fusing television, cartoons, football kits, poetry, fashion, furniture design and records sleeves; re-presenting them as painted marquetry, animated works, performance and installation. Coren edits imagery, simplifying some parts and embellishing others, to cross-contaminate disparate source material into pleasure-filled works. This new body of work rewinds on this abstract visual language, returning to a particular crossroads in his practice at which certain information (like the drawn line) was removed –kick-starting a new journey, at a slight tangent. Authored by hand by means of color and texture, sources are blended and married to evoke a musical feeling of existing elsewhere, while rooted in the real.