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Alon Zakaim Fine Art is delighted to present The Spirit of Summer 鈥� an exhibition that playfully celebrates many of the themes and colours that are associated with the summer season. Across two floors, the show features an eclectic selection of works from the Post-Impressionists, including Henri Lebasque and Gustave Loiseau, to contemporary artists such as Damien Hirst and Jaume Plensa. The varied assemblage of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures demonstrate how artists have experimented with media, colour, and shape to convey鈥攁dvertently or not鈥攖he season of sun, pleasure, and excursion. The exhibition aims to facilitate the evocation of personal summer memories for viewers, offering a sensory escape through art.

The show opens with a striking juxtaposition of monumental abstract works by Jordy Kerwick, Alfred Jensen, and Auguste Herbin. Although united by their vibrant colour palettes and geometric forms, these works constitute entirely disparate examples of abstraction: unlike Jensen and Herbin, who created visual lexicons of symbols that can be translated in their art, Kerwick blended abstract elements with recognisable, figurative forms. Their distinct approaches present viewers with a captivating dialogue about artistic preoccupations with abstraction between the mid-twentieth century and today. The concentric yellow circle depicted in the centre of Jensen鈥檚 work echoes that in Calder鈥檚 Composition, displayed alongside. Calder paints his circle black, but its raised position over the vibrant plane below ostensibly takes on the guise of a sun, perhaps one that has eclipsed. Displayed directly opposite as the monumental counterpart to Kerwick, Robert Cottingham emphasis lay on photorealism to convey, with a high degree of accuracy and detail, the rapidly evolving urbanisation of American cities. In Rat, the patriotic bunting and American flags sway as a gentle summer breeze pervades the composition. Alongside Cottingham, two 鈥榬everspective鈥� works by Patrick Hughes play on the concept of plasticity to elicit illusionistic effects that challenge the conventual limits of traditional works of art.