Adam Dant : The Gilded Desert

5 Sep-14 Sep 2018

Overview

“The Gilded Desert” was a phrase coined by the designer May Morris to describe the newly gentrified environs of London’s Chelsea. This series of new Adam Dant drawings with their dense visual narratives, stylistic and subjective references to certain old master drawings, and their modern-day locations familiar to any self-respecting HNW (high-net-worth) capture a moment in the zeitgeist of the ‘one percent-ers’, and those who observe them, whilst also self-consciously framing them within an obvious art historical context. A group of Old and Modern Masters paintings are on view in the adjoining gallery to emphasize and animate this context. This exhibition is conceived in collaboration with Carolyn Miner