Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong is presenting “Sister Feelings,” the second exhibition dedicated to Swedish artist Jens Fänge on view through March 11, 2017.The exhibition follows “The Hours Before” at Galerie Perrotin, Paris last spring, with a new series of 17 panel paintings (all 2016). Somewhere at the crossroads between the early 20th century practice of collage and the ancient art of shadow play, Jens Fänge has developed a surrealistic matryoshka-like aesthetics, which consists of assembling paintings within paintings. A master of eclecticism, he precipitates – so it seems – an entire hierarchy of genres into his composite works, converging iconic portraits, still lifes, domestic interiors, cityscapes and landscapes with geometric abstractions, all of which he renders using a variety of mediums and materials such as oil paint, pencil, vinyl, cardboard and fabric on panel. The contoured, often cut-out protagonists of the artist’s refined pictorial plays, appear as if drifting into these multiple stage-like layers of representations overlapping each other, which give rise to an intricate, possibly endless maze of shifting perspectives not only within each composition but also within each series taken as a whole.The exhibition is at Galerie Perrotin, 17/F, 50 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong. For details, visit: https://www.perrotin.com Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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