Cecilia Brunson Projects is delighted to present a joint exhibition by David Batchelor (b. 1955, Dundee) and Alfredo Volpi (1896 - 1988, São Paulo). David Batchelor's prioritisation of colour, geometry, and abstraction have often led to him being associated with - or compared to - Brazilian artists. He participated in the 26th Bienal de São Paulo in 2004 and has exhibited in Brazil multiple times since. The exhibition will revolve around an especially commissioned tapestry - a reproduction of one of Batchelor's Covid Variation paintings from 2020. It was hand-woven at the Taller Mexicano de los Gobelinos, a workshop in...
Cecilia Brunson Projects is delighted to present a joint exhibition by David Batchelor (b. 1955, Dundee) and Alfredo Volpi (1896 - 1988, São Paulo).
David Batchelor's prioritisation of colour, geometry, and abstraction have often led to him being associated with - or compared to - Brazilian artists. He participated in the 26th Bienal de São Paulo in 2004 and has exhibited in Brazil multiple times since. The exhibition will revolve around an especially commissioned tapestry - a reproduction of one of Batchelor's Covid Variation paintings from 2020. It was hand-woven at the Taller Mexicano de los Gobelinos, a workshop in Guadalajara that specialises in transforming, or transposing, artworks into this new, textile medium. This tapestry will be complemented by an array of other works by Batchelor, as well as a selection of paintings by Brazilian master Alfredo Volpi.
With his paintings, Alfredo Volpi dismissed the boundaries between abstraction and figuration. He utilised figurative elements, such as his iconic facades and little flags, to construct geometrically and chromatically intricate compositions that vary in their degree of abstraction. In spite of his recurrent use of representative motifs, the way that he saw colour and geometry led to his alignment with the concrete art movement in the 1950s.
