David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new painting and installation by Brazilian artist Lucas Arruda (b. 1983) at the gallery's 537 West 20th Street location in New York. This marks the artist's fourth solo presentation with the gallery.
Arruda's paintings are intricate, meditative compositions that blur the boundaries between mnemonic and imaginative registers, while bringing into form a complex rendition of landscapes that is more a product of a state of mind than a depiction of reality. On view will be new seascapes, junglescapes, and abstract monochromes—all part of the artist's ongoing Deserto-Modelo series. Rather than evoking a particular locale, Arruda's works, which are painted from memory, encourage meditative solitary contemplation. Also featured will be a site-specific installation comprising a pair of rectangles rendered directly on the gallery wall—the top one created through a light projection and the bottom one physically applied in paint—translating the genre of landscape into its most elemental form. Writer Will Chancellor describes the uniquely metaphysical atmosphere that permeates Arruda's oeuvre: 'As portraits of experienced thought, these works show how the mind oscillates between a coherent internal vision and a sensory response to material reality.... Our insights are both constitutive and ephemeral. The light could change at any moment. Like thoughts, the clouds could dissolve into wisps.'
Press release courtesy David Zwirner
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