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Artworks
Deliverance (after El Lissitzky), 2020
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas64 1/2 x 52 1/4 in
163.8 x 132.7 cmSoldFurther images
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Deliverance (2020) depicts an absurd hand-off of a chicken between a monk and an angel, foregrounding an enormous, frontal moon. Larsen’s practice centers on paring down, understanding, and manipulating the...Deliverance (2020) depicts an absurd hand-off of a chicken between a monk and an angel, foregrounding an enormous, frontal moon. Larsen’s practice centers on paring down, understanding, and manipulating the spatial elements of narrative painting. Her work often seeks to utilize the language of abstraction—rather than illusionism—as a means to access a more authentic form of representation. Like the other paintings in this exhibition, Deliverance uses a non-objective composition by El Lissitzky, an important art-historical touchstone for Larsen, as a visual template. Using his abstract forms as parameters for free-association, Larsen slowly builds geometric structure into a psychological ordering of space to construct what curator Veronica Roberts calls “some of the most beguiling and psychologically complex narrative paintings of the 21st century.”Exhibitions
Mernet Larsen, James Cohan Gallery: 48 Walker St., December 1, 2020 - January 23, 2021. -
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