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Loriel Beltrán

LORIEL BELTRÁN

To Name The Light Lehmann Maupin 14 May–22 June 2024 London
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Lehmann Maupin London will present Venezuelan-American artist Loriel Beltrán’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. In his new works, Beltrán resolutely asserts colour materiality and its connections to labor and process while exploring its optical effects. Across his practice, Beltrán examines how colour and light attach themselves to matter and form to suggest tactile, physical presences. Born from his fascination with the dried paint on his palette, Beltrán’s practice draws upon an aesthetics of accumulation. As his surfaces accumulate layers of paint, so too do they accumulate layers of memory and meaning. In this way, Beltrán’s works evidence process, materiality, and artistic labor.

About the Artist

Loriel Beltrán creates sculptural accumulations of paint and colour that defy traditional notions of artistic media. Poetically merging painting and sculpture, the artist states that his works ‘resist becoming images’ and instead materialise colour in its full complexity. Situating his work between the legacy of Latin American modernism and postwar painting in the United States, Beltrán dissolves distinctions between image and object, surface and substance, plane and structure. While the artist considers perceptual effects, he remains equally invested in issues of materiality, process, and industry, foregrounding artistic labor and the residue it leaves behind.

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About the Gallery

Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin founded Lehmann Maupin in 1996. The gallery represents a diverse range of American artists, as well as artists and estates from across Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. It has been instrumental in introducing numerous artists from around the world in their first New York exhibitions.

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