Particle Collection

🌟 Exhibition of the Week: Peter Doig 🌟

To enter the exhibition, you’ll have to walk through the permanent collection of the Courtauld which is worth seeing on its own anyway. Once you are past the ballerina works, the reclining n**e, big and miniature paintings of , the iconic paintings of , and , and of course and you will be lead into two rooms- where the courtauld holds their temporary exhibitions.

Since opening it’s doors after a big refurbishment in 2021, they have held solo exhibitions by artists like and so Peter Doig is the first living artist to have a solo at the Gallery and it certainly doesn’t disappoint.

The show features new paintings, including those created since the artists move from Trinidad to London in 2021. You’ll walk through the exhibition as though walking through seasons- with a rich variety of places, people, memories and of course ways of painting.

It makes sense that they held this exhibition at the Courtauld, seeing as the artist has long admired the impressionist and post impressionist artists housed in the collection and has used them as sources of inspiration for his paintings.

Finally, this show demonstrated a lineage of painting taken from a multitude of influences and made into a practice with its own unique voice. We now see so many younger artists looking to Doig for inspiration, just as Doig did with the artists collected by the gallery.

The show is on view until the 29th of May.

🌟 Artist Spotlight: Geoffrey Holder 🌟

Major rediscovery of a true polymath, mainly known during his lifetime for his work as film director - Geoffrey Holder was a also painter, photographer, choreographer, dcostume designer, dancer and composer born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. In 1953, during his early twenties, Holder relocated to New York City, a move financed by the sale of his paintings and by 1956 he would receive a Guggenheim fellowship in painting.

held a mini retrospective of his works at the end of last year, reintroducing and focusing on Holder’s remarkable work as a painter, with an exhibition spanning the 1970s through the later part of his career.

We love to see older artists who were underrepresented in their lifetime as artists come back with a vengeance. His paintings are elegant and timeless… somehow endlessly contemporary. You wouldn’t be able to tell which works were made in the 50s and those made much later in the 80s and 90s. A true master. One not to look past.

For those heading to Frieze LA next week, look out for a couple of works by the artist showcased
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⭐️ Artist Spotlight ⭐️

Cologne-based artist and musician Kai Althoff has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in contemporary art. Borrowing from moments of history, religious iconography, and counter-cultural movements, Althoff creates imaginary environments in which paintings, sculpture, drawing, video, and found objects commingle.

Althoff’s characters inhabit imaginary worlds that serve as allegories for human experience and emotion. His work bears the imprint of autobiographical influences which draws on a multitude of sources in his art, from Germanic folk traditions to recent popular culture and from medieval and gothic religious imagery to early modern expressionism, reconfigured by introducing collaged technique. For him, art is part of an artist's life in search of existential themes.

His work creates an autonomous and resolutely personal world that seems as tender as it is absurd.

In honor of the group exhibition we hosted with last month during Art Basel Miami week, Particle asked 11 of the artists included in the show to give a description of the work they created.

Overall, the show brought together emerging and mid-career artists who investigate a space through their own psychological depictions of landscapes and figures, cultural attitudes and self-reflection. The show demonstrated the fictitious domain in these works that call for possibilities of transformative experience, demonstrating the immeasurable ways that paint can be manipulated to develop suggestive, transcendent, and sensory compositions.

For the full article please visit the blog section on our website. Link in bio.

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