Harlan Levey Projects 1050, Brussels - 6 June - 7 July 2019
“Recreational Painting” was a set of paintings variously exploring depictions of a ‘leisure complex’. The show focused on the re-creation of imagery to think through notions of novelty, anachronism and painting’s ambiguous relationship with ‘free time’, a notion that we internalise with increasing complexity.
The basis for the works emerged from research in Paris at les fonds Jules Maciet, Bibliothèque du Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the manuscripts of Pierre Klossowski at la Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet.
Installation view (Bouquette)
Le Menuet (after Auguste-François Gorguet) and Savons and Resemblance III , 2019
Oil on linen, 210 x 180 cm / 210 x 180 cm / 40 x 47 cm / 42 x 35 cm
Recreational Painting @ Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels 2019
Installation view (Le menuet II and Le menuet I)
Photo: Ludovic Beillard
Le Menuet II and I (après Auguste François-Marie Gorguet) 2019
Oil on linen, 210 x 190 cm ea
Savons and Resemblance III and Stock , 2019
Oil on linen, 40 x 47 cm / 42 x 35 cm / 80 x 120 cm
Savons, 2019
Oil on linen, 40 x 47 cm
Resemblance III, 2019
Oil on linen, 42 x 35 cm
Recreational Painting @ Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels 2019
Installation view (Stock)
Photo: Ludovic Beillard
Stock, 2019
Oil on linen, 80 x 120 cm
081>Frame32>2003, 2016-19
Oil on linen, 180 x 140 cm
Installation view Recreational Paintings @ Harlan Levey Projects
Photo: Ludovic Beillard
081>Frame32>2003, 2016-19
Oil on linen, 180 x 140 cm
Recreational Painting @ Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels 2019
Installation view (Rassemblance II)
Photo: Ludovic Beillard
Resemblance II, 2019
Oil on linen, 42 x 35 cm
Recreational Painting @ Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels 2019
Installation view (Rassemblance II and Body clock)
Photo: Ludovic Beillard
Body clock
Oil on linen, 160 x 203 cm