Powerage: Juan Bolivar

Powerage (2021) was a was a solo exhibition at JGM Gallery, London, presenting 28 new works. This exhibition's researched early Renaissance painting and the Sienese School, to feed into the decisions of placing images upon re-enacted American Colour Field Painting, in particular the works of Barnett Newman, Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, and earlier examples of the European Avant-Garde - Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers. This type of intertextuality reads at times like a far-fetched plot or absurd comedy involving Duccio, Snow White's Sleepy and Newman's 'zip' paintings. The motifs bring together comic strips and cartoons - the new forms of visual art that emerged in the 20th century - the modernist movement in Europe and Post-War Modernism in the US. These influences have created a rich and problematised zone where painting, abstraction, entertainment, popular culture and high modernism converge and overlap.

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