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Anton Zolotov Solo Exhibition

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Hannah Barry Gallery - Peckham location

Opening Reception Friday March 30th - 6.30 - 9pm

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A chronicler of contemporary American experience, Anton Zolotov’s latest paintings are provocative and lyrical collisions of images, objects, forms and ideas. 

Zolotov is a Russian-American artist living in New York, and his work condenses the familiar tumult of city lifeinto stable, austere geometrical figures.

The integration of found and trash objects allied to the appropriation of abstract, ideal forms challenges the artificial separation of art from life. Equal inspiration is here taken from the formal innovations of early modernism and the aesthetics of throwaway consumerism. The effect is a precarious balance, a seductive combination of the ideal and the mundane thatreflects our own impure experience of the world.Several of the assemblage paintings have the flavour of a palimpsest, with the detritus of post-industrial urban existence simultaneously obscured and preserved by the paint that glues it to the canvas. The ephemeral is thus conserved in paint, a neat twist on the painter’sconventional efforts to immortalise.The artist has expressed his determination to be “an idealist and a storyteller at the sametime”, and these works reflect the complexity of his, and our own, experience of the world around us.

-Press Release Hannah Barry Gallery

Exhibition continues through March 31 - May 12 2012

For more :

Hannah Barry Gallery - Peckham

Unit 9i

Copeland Road Industrial Estate 

133 Copeland Road 

SE15 3SN

+44 (0)20 7635 0464