INTER-SCENIC the first solo exhibition by British visual artist Rupert Hartley which launches on May 11th at the gallery.
Join us for the Vernissage and discover this new series of paintings and meet the artist Rupert Hartley.
Drinks, art and conversation from 17:00.
View the Inter - Scenic digital exhibition catalogue below.
Listen to the recent Nordic Art Agency Podcast episode below where Rupert Hartley discusses his painting practice and the Inter - Scenic exhibition.
Inter-scenic
In his new paintings Rupert Hartley expands on his previously formalistic approach, his repetitions of grids and colour more explicitly alluding to both architecture and landscape, offering the viewer both flat planes and vistas. He considers his paintings a distillation of what he calls ‘the simulated environments and psychogeographies’ of his local environments in the coastal town of Hove where he lives.
Inter-grid No. 2
Originally painting squares was as a way to see colours more clearly in the studio and to use up paints. The coloured squares have become central to his paintings in recent years. An overly familiar trope of art history, he exploits this simplistic form as an open emblem, looking back at art history but also reflecting his own connections to social, environmental and architectural space.
A constant in Rupert’s work has been an exploration of architecture and city space, an interest he explored in the early 2000’s through walking and mapping art projects across city spaces, and now painting from a studio in Hove he finds connections in his daily use of the city informing how he defines the scale, surface and colour of his work.
The softest light imaginable
The exhibition will be open on the first floor of the gallery from 12 May to 13 June and a digital exhibition catalogue will be released the day of the Vernissage. Please contact the gallery to receive your preview copy of the Inter - scenic exhibition digital catalogue.
Discover more about artist Rupert Hartley by visiting his Artist Page.
