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Postcard from Utopia, oil on canvas postbag, laid on board, 78 x 58 cm
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Shadow of Invisible Things, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
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Stockholm Squirrel Map, oil on canvas, 90 x 95 cm
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Elephanten Haus, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
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Royal Tarot, oil on canvas, 58 x 78 cm
Exhibition
The MuBild of Arte Normale
29 Oct 2017 – 16 Nov 2017
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 13:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 13:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 13:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 13:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 13:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 13:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 13:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- Kendrew Quad
- St. Giles
- Oxford
- OX1 3JP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The Barn is just to the left of the new Alumni Office at 21 St Giles (North of main entrance of St John's)
FRITH POWELL: A RETROSPECTIVE. FP has worked reclusively for over 50 years, wrestling with visual and philosophical themes. Don't miss this remarkable culmination of a life’s work, dedicated to dressing ‘Nothing in Something…giving shape to entities that lie beyond the bounds of sense experience'.
About
This substantial four-room exhibition explores Frith Powell’s extraordinary range and technical virtuosity. The main body of his work is from the enigmatic MuBild collection, which includes beautiful and quietly challenging oil paintings, sculptures and drawings.
‘I feel the essential challenge for me, as an abstract painter, is in creating what could be called a ‘fiction of reality’, something that looks as though it might be real, at first sight, or is at least highly suggestive of reality, but on closer examination is seen to be unrecognizable. Other.’ (Frith Powell on his MuBild collection)
The final gallery draws the viewer into the magical world of Frith Powell’s alter ego. Entitled The Singular Apprenticeship of Fabio Penitente, this mysterious and enchanting ‘hidden archive’ of small sculptures and drawings comprises an entire and coherent ‘alternative’ culture, replete with its own meticulously sculpted artefacts.
