Press Release

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Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Pol Taburet’s inaugural solo exhibition in São Paulo, titled ‘Ode to Twisted Gods.’ This multimedia showcase includes photographs, installations, paintings, and bronze sculptures. Taburet’s diverse approach draws from influences in cinema, art history, music, and cultural connections spanning the Caribbean, France, and the Americas.

Taburet’s paintings feature captivating scenes of ballerinas, waitresses, pietàs, and sleeping figures, creating a dreamy atmosphere guarded by an enigmatic figure. Painted with a synthetic pigment famously associated with Yves Klein, Taburet adds a quirky aspect to his paintings. Navigating ambiguous narratives, the artist creates surreal images challenging conventional perceptions, inviting viewers into a captivating and dreamy world.

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About the Artist

Pol Taburet’s work is a heady and iconoclastic mix of references that range from the artist’s own Caribbean background, the region’s synchretic voodoo traditions and belief systems, wider contemporary culture, as well as classical painting. Born in 1997, the artist has rapidly gained attention with his idiosyncratic painterly style, which he has developed by incorporating the use of airbrushing alongside traditional brush painting with acrylic colours. The formal result is a unique contraposition of textures and finishings, of painstaking detail, ‘impressionistic’ suggestion and symbolism.

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About the Gallery

Intellectually rigorous, politically active, and highly conceptual, the programme of contemporary art gallery Mendes Wood DM places an emphasis on critical conversation, working to embrace the individuality of each artist while also supporting the discovery of intersections between practices that might initially seem disparate.

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