Exhibition
The Market Paintings
29 Nov 2016 – 3 Dec 2016
Regular hours
- 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
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 51 Southwark Street
- London
- SE1 1RU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- RV1 and 381
- London Bridge
- London Bridge
London-based artist Trevor Burgess brings paintings of street markets from around the world to the Menier Gallery in Southwark.
The exhibition includes paintings of markets in London, Paris, Mumbai, Mexico City, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Rica.
About
Burgess’s paintings are immediately striking for their unusually vivid and refreshingly tactile use of paint. He evokes a world of colour, taste and flavour that appeals directly to the viewer’s senses.
Burgess is best known for making paintings of urban life in London. HIs last series, A Place To Live, created a beguiling topography of London's residential architecture. In 2015, he completed a private commission of a triptych painting of Granary Square, King's Cross for the prestigious Landscape Architects, Townshend and in 2014 he curated IN THE CITY, an exhibition of nine painters exploring urban life on four continents.
Now, with this exciting new series of work, he has expanded his repertoire. The Market Paintings range from London’s street and wholesale markets to the cities of Latin America and India, Paris, Mexico City and Costa Rica. Paintings of flower stalls, meat counters, piled up fruit and vegetable displays, fishboxes, cheeses and bric-a-brac take the still life tradition out of the studio back into the streets.
At the heart of the work is a common pulse that Burgess identifies as a “culture of trade and exchange that’s central to the existence of any city.” He makes a connection between the display of the goods in a market and the basic function of painting – “it’s all about ways of attracting the eye.”
Various paintings explore the relationship between the traders and the shoppers. “That’s a very human thing”, he says, “Market stalls are actually quite theatrical, with the traders performing for their public.” The paintings often enact this direct connection by putting the viewer in the place of the shopper. “I like to remind myself of these things that bind painting to the ordinary processes of living.”
Further information
For further information and images please contact Trevor Burgess
T: 020 8469 1445 M: 07425 138659
E: trevor@trevorburgess.co.uk www.trevorburgess.co.uk
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