Knife Edge

19 Aug-29 Aug 2021

Overview

Artists: Nelson Diplexcito, Howard Rogers
 
When we first started talking about putting Knife Edge together, we were in a pre-­pandemic world, a different place to the one we know now. The paintings that are in this exhibition were made in the space between that different world and the place we see and experience today. The paintings in this exhibition were made in a time of uncertainty –a world where the fragility of existence and Francis Bacon's reference to the "Brutality of Fact" seems more relevant than ever. It may feel that with everything that has happened and is happening, that painting has very little to add, particularly when we consider the number of images that flood our vision on a daily basis. Our response is that there is more need today for Painting then there has ever been.