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Elise Ansel

ELISE ANSEL

Luminous Flux Cadogan Gallery 24 October–6 December 2024 Milan
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Cadogan Gallery is delighted to announce our upcoming exhibition with American artist Elise Ansel. This will be the artist’s eighth solo show with Cadogan and her first in the Milan Gallery. The exhibition will be on view in Milan from the 24 October–6 December.

“In Luminous Flux, at Cadogan Gallery in Milan, Elise Ansel presents 14 radiant, glowing paintings evenly divided into two sets of sevens: the Woman in Blue series inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter (c.1663) and the Woman in Red paintings which spring from Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Donor also known as the Cornbury Park altarpiece (1505). The paintings of each color vary in size and lined up feel like a devotion to chroma and paint. Ansel entwines a love for painting with a deep reverence for narrative and melds these forms together in a complex, innovative dialogue between her paintings and those by the Old Masters. She opens up possibilities, in little explosions of color and brushwork. ”

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About the Artist

Using energetic gestural abstraction, Elise Ansel translates Old Master paintings into a contemporary pictorial language. She mines art historical imagery for colour and form, setting aside the narrative and pictorial elements of these paintings and creating room for new interpretations. Her works interrupt linear readings of Old Master paintings, repurposing and highlighting the unexpected. The representational content is transformed into a celebration of colour, gesture, and the materiality of paint. In the process of reducing her inspirations to their most fundamental forms, she retains their power and energy, replacing imagery with dynamic movement and dramatic colour and light.

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About the Gallery

Cadogan is an independent contemporary art gallery with spaces in London, Hampshire and Milan. For over forty years our mission has been to represent, support and curate the work of a diverse roster of emerging and established artists. We care deeply about longevity, developing the careers of our artists and the journey of our collectors.

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