KIAF SEOUL

The young Viennese artist Anouk Lamm Anouk will be represented by a delicate vignette from their Lesbian Jazz suite of works, as well as an abstract from their Zen-derived post/pre series. Also on view is a recent acrylic on linen titled Nostalgia for a Future No.6, a showcase for the artist’s increased interest in harmonious social groupings found in the animal kingdom.

Exuberant, pop-inspired works with an aquatic theme by British artist Philip Colbert will also be on display. The bubblegum-hued oil on canvas Lobster Octopus (Pompeii Scene) is complemented by a bronze edition of a tentacled and simultaneously clawed lobster-octopus hybrid.

These will be accompanied by a work from British artist duo Gilbert & George’s The Corpsing Pictures series, which premiered at the gallery in December 2022. Seen from above, Stemming (2022) shows the pair lying down side by side, enmeshed in a matrix of plant stems.

Echoing the grid framework of Stemming and the sense of close quarters therein is a painting by American neo-conceptualist Peter Halley, comprising three interconnected geometric grids that contain the suggestion of prison cells as well as circuitry.

Jonathan Meese is one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation and a long-time friend of the gallery. Patricia Low is proud to display two paint- ings of ‘monstrous’ creatures, one a sea creature from 2014 that complements the aquatic theme in the Colbert works, and another more recent mixed media piece of a doctor character that exemplifies the artist’s ever-bold and inventive use of materials.

With his highly textured, teeming sculptures Brian Rochefort creates impressive eruptions approximating those found in nature. Two of the artist’s signature overflowing paint cans —made from ceramic and glass fragments – are on view.

Known for anthropomorphising everyday objects in novel and often unsettling ways, the booth also features a beguilingly bulbous and similarly teeming Mura- no glass sculpture of a convertible by Erwin Wurm in deep-sea blue, titled Ice Convertible Blue (2023).