Welcome tonight, 6-8 pm, to the opening of Rabia Farooqui’s (@rabiafarooqui.4 ) exhibition «Synthetic Skin» and…
Welcome tonight, 6-8 pm, to the opening of Rabia Farooqui’s (@rabiafarooqui.4 ) exhibition «Synthetic Skin» and Bertram Hasenauer’s (@bertramhasenauer ) show «Cheek by Jowl» at our Wandsworth Space!
A giant teddy bear lounges in a rocking chair while women embrace its arms and legs, stroke its fur. In Synthetic Skin, a solo exhibition of miniature paintings by Karachi-based artist Rabia Farooqui at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Wandsworth, the teddy bear transforms from a simple childhood toy into a complex symbol of longing, desire, connection and detachment.
Faces appear caught in blinding bursts of white light or slip into dark silvery shadows. Cheek by Jowl, Bertram Hasenauer’s latest solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Wandsworth presents a new series of captivating portraits rendered in graphite and coloured pencil on paper. Each image is the result of an intense and exacting process in which the facial features are slowly built up through layers to create what Hasenauer calls ‘an idea of a figure’ rather than a portrait of a specific individual. Yet, somehow, these works still feel close, intimate. How much of an image or line do we need to be given to complete the picture? At what point does perception end and imagination begin?
