Reena Spaulings : Lion Hunt

21 Mar-18 May 2019

Overview

High-visibility yellow is for maximum retinal stimulation in already hyper-stimulated urban environments. It fights and overwhelms Reena Spaulings’ pigments, sometimes causing strange optical shifts, making certain greens look purple while normally bright and primary yellows become dull like mustard on the anti-colour of the high-viz support. With the Gilets Jaunes movement in France it emits as a pure signal: end of politics, end of civil society, failure of the neoliberal project, human emergency. Campoli Presti is pleased to announce Lion Hunt, Reena Spaulings' fourth exhibition with the gallery. This show takes Eugène Delacroix’s 1854 painting The Lion Hunt (Fragment) and high-visibility yellow as points of departure to explore the idea of composition as an active clash between bodies, colours and gestures.