Peter Drake at AICON Gallery, London

AICON Gallery announces the launch of their new London space with the opening exhibition

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Featuring Peter Drake and Riyas Komu

AICON Gallery
8 Heddon St.
London, UK W1B 4BU
www.aicongallery.com

MARCH 16 - APRIL 15
Opening reception with the artists: Friday, March 16th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

From the exhibition catalog essay by Donald Kuspit:

“I am struck by the beauty of Peter Drake’s M/oral Pathology paintings, 2007:  erotically intense red, marked with luminous gestures and geometrical shapes, sometimes hexagonal, sometimes rectangular, usually surrounding an abyss of blackness.  Never mind that the abysmal hole is an open mouth, its interior nakedly exposed.  Nor does it matter, at least at first shocking glance, that the flamboyant gestures--they have a baroque flair--turn out to be Arabic phrases, or that the shapes instantly read as teeth.  The blackness arouses expectations of death; its lesions spot the fiery red, suggesting ash.
One has the sense of an action painting with a representational edginess.”

Essay copyright © Donald Kuspit, 2007

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