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

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Menier Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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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 

www.meniergallery.co.uk/Menier_Gallery/Exhibitions.html

 

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