SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

Unit 84, Alserkal Av.,Str. 6A,Al Quoz 1 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Monday, March 18, 2019–Tuesday, July 23, 2019


After the great success of the show, Custot Gallery Dubai is pleased to announce the extension of the exhibition until July 30, 2019. Spring Break is a group show featuring the paintings and sculptures by the international modern and contemporary artists Etel Adnan, Ron Arad, Fernando Botero, Ian Davenport, Barry Flanagan, Richard Höglund, Fernand Léger, Umberto Mariani, Joan Miró, Jedd Novatt, Marc Quinn, Pablo Reinoso, Hervé van der Straeten, Sophia Vari, Bernar Venet and Fabienne Verdier.​Highlights of the show include some works by Marc Quinn, the most prominent figures of the Young British Artists group, who makes art about what it is to be a person living in the world. His work The Eye of History (Polar Perspective) Red, 2012 comments on the paranoid world we live in, and the notion of 24-hour news where the whole world is connected through ever-present media, syncopating with notions of our eroding and changing geographical world. The painting presents the image of the world from a Polar perspective. Also, on view, three bronze sculptures from The Nurseries of El Dorado series. These works place together botanical elements which would never be found together in nature to transport the viewer into a mythical world.​Also, on view Ascèse, 2015, a masterpiece by the French artist Fabienne Verdier. This circular composition explores the relationship between negative and positive space. For the artist, the circle, the most elementary of forms is a symbol of the center of the cosmos. While Verdier stands in the middle of the canvas with her brush, she uses herself as a sort of compass and with a 360-degree rotating movement, she sets the mark of the circle around herself into the space of her canvas.